Wireless Body Sensor Networks for Patient Health Monitoring: Security, Challenges, Applications Security, Challenges, Applications – IoT Healthcare Management

Wireless Body Sensor Networks for Patient Health Monitoring: Security, Challenges, Applications Security, Challenges, Applications – IoT Healthcare Management

Bhanu Chander
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0261-7.ch006
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Abstract

Remote medical health management is the most attractive research field in the domain of WSN. Wireless body area network (WBAN) produces constant, unbroken observation of the patient. Basically, WBAN acts as the appliance of internet of things (IoT) which offers an opportunity to a medical examiner to supervise chronic disease. Dissimilar protocols, guidelines, policies have been developed and developing in the last decade. In WBAN, minute power sensor nodes deployed toward capturing unusual essential signs of patients at home, hospitals in support of analysis purpose and furthermore advise suitable procedures. The main goal of this chapter is to introduce a complete and advanced understanding of WBANs, energy savings methods, human activity monitoring procedures, challenges and research issues, applications, and a comprehensive literature survey.
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Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) is a combination of Wireless sensor nodes (WSNs) which capable of placed outside or inside the body of the patient/individual person and that in results shows observed or monitored functionalities along with adjoining conditions of the human body. The expansion and management of Wireless body area networks (WBAN) come into reality when the enlargement of wireless sensor networks (WSN) reach some level, hence WBAN recognized as sub-field in WSNs. Advanced development in wireless technology, Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Information Connection Technology (ICT) makes powerful healthcare category to compose effectively and efficiently furthermore endow with a variety of solutions and well-being services. WSNs come into view as a powerful as well as low cast platform for linking the physical world en route to the digital world. As a result of set-up at huge amount of tinny expensive sensor nodes in the observation area, we can check the adjacent atmosphere through systematically assembled sensed data which broadcast back to sink (Base station) in a wireless or wired configuration (Chris Otto et al., 2006; Chinmay et al., 2016; Kamta et al., 2019; Chinmay et al., 2013; Bhanu et al., 2018).

Day-by-day increase in population demanding speedy advances in healthcare costs. Healthcare system is progressive in the course of a revolution, in which unbroken regulation of inhabitant is achievable devoid-of hospitalization. Continuous innovations in sense mechanisms, nano-technologies, embedded systems, miniaturization, and wireless conversation technologies formulates that it is feasible to build a well-dressed system to examine actions of human being endlessly. E-health administration can go with Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) which shows empowering innovation, scientific knowledge, machinery performance, technology and attractiveness gaining day-by-day for the reason of its benefits. Sensors utilized to assemble sensitive, essential medical associated information/statistics of a patient moreover it can also applicable in sports to examine players’ potentiality and strength. Wireless body area networks offer a guarantee to remodel health monitoring. In opposition, researchers/designers of such healthcare systems face a number of difficult tasks as they need to deal with incompatible requirements size, operating systems, exactness, and trustworthiness (Chris Otto et al., 2006; Chinmay et al., 2016; Kamta et al., 2019; Chinmay et al., 2013; Bhanu et al., 2018; Chinmay et al., 2013).

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