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Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks: Healthcare in HospitalsAuthors: balakrishna@research.iiit.ac.in ,Garimella Ramamurthy,Sujeeth Nanda Conference: ifth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine(eTELEMED 2013) Date: 2013-02-24 Report no: IIIT/TR/2013/2 AbstractWireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have attracted much attention in recent years. The applications of Wireless Sensor Network are immense. Wireless Sensor networks have been used for various applications like environment monitoring, health monitoring and etc. Applications of Wireless sensor network in healthcare leads to an area called Body Area Network (BAN) or Body sensor Networks. In recent years we have witnessed that the wireless body area network technology is increasing pressure on quality of healthcare because of increasing population of aging people and health consciousness people. As a result Wireless body area networks are an emerging technology for providing this kind of health facility to the required people. In this paper we present an overview of wireless body area networks and we also present novel ideas to improve healthcare systems in India with the help of telecommunication and information technology. Full paper: pdf Centre for Others |
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