SENSOR GRID ARCHITECTURE FOR REMOTE PATIENT HEALTH CARE MONITORING

摘要

Recent advancement in wireless sensor network technology has completely changed the way the physicians and other health professionals monitor and access patients’ health status records in real time, interact with each other, and access the past and present medical records of patients. However, the sensor nodes used in a wireless sensor network to monitor patients’ health are resource constraint in nature with limited processing and communication capability. In future, an increase of wireless sensor networks to monitor and analyze patients’ health records is envisioned and therefore, the resource constraint nature of wireless sensor networks needs to be addressed. In this paper, an architecture to overcome the limitations of wireless sensor networks is introduced using Grid computing technology. Sensor Grid technology combines these two technologies by extending the Grid computing paradigm to the sensor resources in wireless sensor networks. This paper outlines how the Sensor Grid technology provides a solution for remote patient monitoring to address the resource constraint nature of the sensor devices in a wireless sensor network.