Advances in Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) will allow a range of medical applications that will significantly improve the quality of health care. Nevertheless the potential of using a body area network with several sensors to monitor vital functions of a human body can only be tapped if we achieve the ease of use and the ease of configuration. In this paper we present a service- oriented framework for WBAN. In the proposed architecture, sensors are coordinated by a gateway node, which in turn retransmits data to a remote central unit and receives WBAN control information and queries from this central unit. The central unit on the other hand will be in charge of storing sensors data, sensor reconfiguration and resource management client, detecting alarms and sending the patients information to the medical staff. The target user is a patient who needs continuous monitoring. The patient usually resides in care unit or residence for elder people. WBAN in this case shall increase patient comfort and reduces periodical checkups allowing remote monitoring. We believe that the use of Web Services and standardizing the messages exchanged is a potential solution for interoperability and ease of use and configuration challenges. This will attract a larger pool of application developers, leading to more innovative applications.
2nd Mosharaka International Conference on Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications (MIC-MCWC 2011)
Congress
2011 Global Congress on Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications (GC-MCWC 2011), 3-5 June 2011, Istanbul, Turkey
Pages
26-29
Topics
Handheld and Wearable Computing Information Infrastructures
ISSN
2227-331X
DOI
BibTeX
@inproceedings{97MCWC2011,
title={Sensors based SOA enabled middleware for patient monitoring system},
author={Maha Abousharkh, and Hussein Mouftah},
booktitle={2011 Global Congress on Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications (GC-MCWC 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={26-29},
doi={}},
organization={Mosharaka for Research and Studies}
}