Remote Medical Monitoring Through Vehicular Ad Hoc Network

Several diseases and medical conditions require constant monitoring of physiological signals and vital signs on daily bases, such as diabetics, hypertension and etc. In order to make these patients capable of living their daily life it is necessary to provide a platform and infrastructure that allows the constant collection of physiological data even when the patient is not inside of the coverage area. The data must be rapidly ”transported” to care givers or to the designated medical enterprise. The problem is particularly severe in case of emergencies (e.g. natural disasters or hostile attacks) when the communications infrastructure (e.g. cellular telephony, WiFi public access, etc) has failed or is totally congested. In this paper we present an evaluation of of the vehicular adhoc networks (VANET) as an alternate method of collecting patient pre-recorded physiological data and at the same time reconfiguring patient medical wearable body vests to select the data specifically re...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: VTC
• Authors: Hyduke Noshadi, Eugenio Giordano, Hagop Hagopian, Giovanni Pau, Mario Gerla, Majid Sarrafzadeh
• Keywords: Body Vests, Communications, Physiological Data, Pre-recorded Physiological Data, VTC 2008