Developing a wireless sensor network based on a proposed algorithm for healthcare purposes

Reza Abbasi-Kesbi; Zahra Asadi; Alireza Nikfarjam

doi:10.1007/s13534-019-00140-w

Developing a wireless sensor network based on a proposed algorithm for healthcare purposes

Biomed Eng Lett. 2019 Nov 22;10(1):163-170. doi: 10.1007/s13534-019-00140-w. eCollection 2020 Feb.

Authors

Reza Abbasi-Kesbi¹, Zahra Asadi², Alireza Nikfarjam¹

Affiliations

¹ 1MEMS and NEMS Laboratory, Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
² 2Faculty of Electrical, Computer and IT Engineering, Qazvin Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran.

Abstract

This letter describes a developed wireless sensor network based on a proposed algorithm for monitoring the environmental parameters in healthcare intentions. This proposed algorithm contains a frame with different packets that are implemented on the developed wireless sensor network. The developed wireless sensor network consists of one central node as well as four sensor node that has been equipped with various sensors such as temperature, humidity, CO, CO₂, and passive infrared sensor. In order to test the presented algorithm and the developed wireless sensor network, the sensor nodes are situated in four different rooms in a hospital for recording essential parameters of the environment while the central node is put in the nurse station for warning to nurses. The obtained result of the proposed sensor nodes in comparison to gold standards shows root mean square error 1.1%, $0.35^{\circ} C$ , 0.98% for humidity, temperature and gas, respectively. Also, the obtained results illustrate that the system gives accurate feedback from environmental temperature, humidity, and CO, and CO₂ to the nurse station in order to increases the possibility of a healthy environment condition for patients.

Keywords: Healthcare; Proposed algorithm; Wireless sensor network.