Low-Power Consumption for Mobile Healthcare

Monitoring

By

Abidoye Ademola Philip

(Student No: 3008758)

Supervised by: Prof. Henry O. Nyongesa

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 Introduction

• A wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of spatially distributed

autonomous sensors to cooperatively monitor physical or
environmental conditions [1]. It is becoming a significant enabling
technology for a wide variety of applications such as:
 health monitoring
 emergency response
Security
 industrial automation
 environment and agriculture applications
 automotive and aeronautic applications
 building automation
 military applications e.t.c

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 Introduction conts.

 Health monitoring

Wireless sensor networks can greatly be used in healthcare area to

monitor and track conditions of patients [2].
They can be used in conjunction with other wireless devices to collect
patients’ vital signs such as:
blood pressure
heartbeat rate
body temperature,
blood oxygen saturation
blood sugar level e.t.c

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 Why Using Wireless Sensors in Healthcare?

 they eliminate medical errors by continuously collect more

accurate and objective information from patients for diagnosis.
 they reduce workload and increase the efficiency of hospital
staff.
 they improve the comfort of patients.
 they allow remote monitoring of patients, freeing hospital
resources and home care staff.

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 Constraints of Bio-Sensor Wireless Networks

 Despite the usefulness and many applications of wireless

sensor networks in healthcare, they have the following
constraints:
 High energy consumption
 Security Problem
Limited computational power.
Among the wireless sensor networks constraints energy
consumption is one of the main problem.

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 Rationale

Wireless Sensor Networks can be deployed in remote or

difficultly accessible areas. As a result, they often cannot rely on
the power grid for their energy source, and recharging/changing
the batteries at all time may affect the performance of the
sensors [3][4].
In order to reach lifetimes of several months or years, WSNs not
only use energy-efficient micro-controllers and radios (hardware
implementation), but also implement power-efficient schemes at
the Medium-Access layer.

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 Objectives

• To analyze the energy dissipation characteristics of wireless

sensor nodes.
• To simulate energy consumption at each node of the wireless
sensor networks.
• To encrypt the data transmitted between the devices using
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).

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 Methodology

• The following devices will be used to carry out the

research:
Wearable Body Sensor Network (WBSN)
Mobile Phone (GPRS Enable) i.e Sony Ericsson or
Nokia E75
• Medical Server called “An Intelligent Database Health
Management System (IDHMS)”.
• Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) approach
will be used to minimize energy consumption at the sensor
nodes.

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 System Architecture

GPRS
Medical Server
ZigBee

Mobile Phone

Sensors
Medical doctor

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 Intra-BAN Communications
• ZigBee is used for intra-BAN communication
because of the following reasons:
 It
allows higher data rate of about 250Kbits/s at frequency
2.4GHz.
It is available worldwide (unlicensed frequency).

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 References
[1] I. F. Akyildiz, SuWeilian, Y. Sankarasubramaniam, and E. Cayirci, “A
survey on sensor networks”, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 40,
no. 8, pp. 102 – 114, August  2002.
[2] M. Perillo andW. Heinzelman, “ASP: An adaptive energy-efficient
polling algorithm  for Bluetooth piconets,” in Proceedings of the
Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2003.
[3] W. Heinzelman, A. Chandrakasan, H. Balakrishnan, „Energy-efficient
communication protocol for wireless microsensor networks“,
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on System Sciences
(HICSS '00), January 2000.
[4] J. Y. Khan and M. R. Yuce, “ Performance Evaluation of a Wireless
Body Area Sensor Network for Remote Patient Monitoring,” in the
conference of the IEEE Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC08), (August 2008).
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