University Healthcare: Wireless Sensor Network Implementation Report

This report provides an overview of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) designed for healthcare applications, specifically focusing on elderly care. It details the network's architecture, including sensor nodes, GPS, and Cisco networking components like routers, switches, servers, firewalls, and access points. The WSN monitors patients' physiological signals such as blood pressure, motion, and heart rate, transmitting data to a health data center. The system utilizes sensors to collect patient data and a GSM modem to send SMS messages to healthcare providers and the patient’s family during emergencies. The report emphasizes the benefits of the WSN, including its ability to provide efficient network infrastructure, secure data transmission, and patient monitoring, with references to relevant research. The report also highlights the use of Cisco products to provide effective network infrastructure, secure data transmission and storage within the healthcare organization.

Wireless Sensor Network
The Age care wireless sensor network is illustrated in the below diagram.
MS Visio file is attached here.
The age care wireless sensor network is used to tract the details of the patients. The
wireless sensor was helpful to identify the financial and social burdens of the aging
population. The health care organization uses the sensor and it is placed on a person’s body,
which communicates and provides the health status of the patients. The wireless sensors are
connected to PC, which provides the status of the patients. The PC is used to monitor the
sensor actions and provides detailed information, based on the communication of the sensors.
The wireless sensor network contains four sensors. These are used to collect the patient’s
physiological signals, which are forwarded from the health data centre to the server, with the
help of wireless relay nodes. Later, presenting the data, analysing and storing the received
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data are completed with the help of the Graphical user interface. The sensors also send SMS
to the patient’s family and to the health care provider during emergency conditions, by using
the GSM modem.
The wireless sensor network contains the following components:
a) Sensor nodes
b) GPS
c) Computer
d) Cisco Routers
e) Cisco Switches
f) Cisco Server
g) Cisco Firewall
h) Cisco Wireless Access point
The sensor nodes have different roles to play. The wireless sensors are simultaneously
used to monitor and sense various parameters that are determined by the health care
physicians. The sensors provide patient details such as blood pressure, motion detection
accelerometers, movement and heart rate of the fetal.
The GPS system is used to send emergency SMS and email to the health care
including the patient’s family. Moreover, it also shares the patient’s location. It also helps to
determine the patient’s emergency conditions. The sensors measure the blood pressure and
detect the patient’s position. It reduces the energy consumption and achieves more energy
conservation. It also measures the end-to-end delay, coverage range and energy consumption.
It does not require high frequency band. The wireless sensor network finds monitoring the
patient’s life quality as challenging. The sensors simultaneously monitor and check the
patient’s critical parameters; their heart beat rate and blood pressure. The collected
information is forwarded to the physician. It did the long term checking and monitoring of the
patient’s condition. Therefore, if any emergency occurs, the GPS system sends Email and
SMS to the health care along with the patient’s location. It provides better performance when
compared to other existing wireless sensor networks.
The wireless sensor network uses Cisco products to provide effective network
infrastructure, for an age care health care University. The Cisco routers, switches, server and
access points provide efficient and sufficient network for a health care. The Cisco firewall is
used to provide a secure network infrastructure. It securely transmits and collects the data in
the health care organization. The Age care organization securely maintains the patients’
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details by using the cisco server. The wireless sensor network is monitoring and sensing the
patients and provides the information to the specific people. It has emerged as a network
device that meets the consumer centric expectations. It also provides high human interface
functionality. The overall wireless sensor network provides effective and secure network
connection.
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References
[1]"Sensors", Mdpi.com, 2017. [Online]. Available: http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/1?
view=abstract&listby=type&page_no=1. [Accessed: 15- Nov- 2017].
[2]M. Aminian, "A Hospital Healthcare Monitoring System Using Wireless Sensor
Networks", 2017. .
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