A Universal PAN Architecture for Monitoring Multiple Chronic Conditions
Lead Research Organisation:
Kingston University
Department Name: Faculty of Computing Info System & Maths
Abstract
People living with chronic medical conditions need regular and personalised care. Mobile healthcare, synergies of mobile computing, medical sensor, and communications technologies, provides services for the patient's vital signs to be monitored outside the clinical environment.Bluetooth wireless communication technology has been widely used in healthcare sector as cable replacement. ZigBee, an emerging ultra-low power wireless technology, has the potential to monitor multiple vital signs and environmental parameters. Bluetooth and ZigBee are envisioned as two important wireless technologies in patient monitoring. Some research projects have demonstrated the application of these two technologies in healthcare.However, until now Bluetooth and ZigBee devices can't interoperate in Bluetooth and ZigBee networks. It's expected a universal system which can accommodate these two wireless technologies is highly desirable.This project will research such a system architecture which can support Bluetooth and ZigBee technologies. The new architecture will use one set of hardware for the radio signal and other advanced signal processing and networking technologies for seamless data transmission. Several key issues will be investigated, including radio signal identification, signal demodulation, and reconfigurable modular protocol stack. The new architecture is totally software driven. The key innovation of the project is the software for signal processing and protocol stack are applied at application layer. This allows the software to be reusable and upgradeable regardless of the hardware component so as to reduce the development cost. Finally, a test bed of the new architecture will be implemented and demonstrated.
Organisations
Publications
Hughes L
(2012)
A review of protocol implementations and energy efficient cross-layer design for wireless body area networks.
in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Zhang H
(2011)
An OMA DM Based Framework for Updating Modulation Module for Mobile Devices
in International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient and Autonomic Systems
Li S
(2012)
Polychromatic set theory-based spectrum access in cognitive radios
in IET Communications
Li S
(2013)
Compressed Sensing Signal and Data Acquisition in Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of Things
in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Li S
(2013)
A Continuous Biomedical Signal Acquisition System Based on Compressed Sensing in Body Sensor Networks
in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Wang X
(2013)
Scalable Routing Modeling for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks by Using Polychromatic Sets
in IEEE Systems Journal
Li S
(2012)
Efficient blind spectrum sensing for cognitive radio networks based on compressed sensing
in EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Description | EPSRC |
Amount | £117,504 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/H011919/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start |
Description | EPSRC |
Amount | £117,504 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/H011919/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start |