Hospital RFID-Based Patient u-Healthcare Design over Wireless Medical Sensor Network

Abstract

Ubiquitous sensor network is drawing a lot of attention as a method for realizing a ubiquitous society. It collects environmental information to realize a variety of functions, through a countless number of compact wireless nodes that are located everywhere to form an ad hoc arrangement, which does not require a communication infrastructure. However, there isn’t any flexible and robust communication infrastructure to integrate these devices into an emergency care setting. An efficient wireless communication substrate for medical devices that addresses ad hoc or fixed network for information, naming and discovery, transmission efficiency of the data, data security and authentication, as well as filtration and aggregation of vital sign data need to be studied. We propose a Hospital RFID-based Patient u-Healthcare Management System architecture that possesses the essential elements of each of the future medical applications are integration with existing medical practices and technology, real-time, long-term, remote monitoring, miniature, wearable sensors to assist the elderly and chronic patients, and to amplify the transmission of data by installing routers in the hospital.