Summary:
This paper describes a novel healthcare IT platform developed under the LOBIN project, which allows monitoring several physiological parameters, such as ECG, heart rate, body temperature, etc., and tracking the location of a group of patients within hospital environments. The combination of e-textile and wireless sensor networks provides an efficient way to support noninvasive and pervasive services demanded by future healthcare environments. This paper presents the architecture, system deployment as well as validation results from both laboratory tests and a pilot scheme developed with real users in collaboration with the Cardiology Unit at La Paz Hospital, Madrid, Spain.
Keywords: E-textile, healthcare, indoor location, wireless sensor networks (WSNs).
JCR Impact Factor and WoS quartile: 1,707 (2010); 2,493 (2014)
DOI reference:
https://doi.org/10.1109/TITB.2010.2058812
Published on paper: November 2010.
Published on-line: July 2010.
Citation:
G. López, V. Custodio, J.I. Moreno, LOBIN: E-textile and wireless-sensor-network-based platform for healthcare monitoring in future hospital environments. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine. Vol. 14, nº. 6, pp. 1446 - 1458, November 2010. [Online: July 2010]
