Analysis of bluetooth-based wireless sensor networks performance in hospital environments
Fecha
2016Autor
Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Contribución a congreso / Biltzarrerako ekarpena
Versión
Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa
Impacto
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10.3390/ecsa-3-D001 (erróneo)
Resumen
In this work, a method to analyze the performance of Bluetooth-based Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) deployed within hospital environments is presented. Due to the complexity that this kind of scenarios exhibit in terms of radio propagation and coexistence with other wireless communication systems and other potential interference sources, the deployment of WSNs becomes a complex task which require ...
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In this work, a method to analyze the performance of Bluetooth-based Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) deployed within hospital environments is presented. Due to the complexity that this kind of scenarios exhibit in terms of radio propagation and coexistence with other wireless communication systems and other potential interference sources, the deployment of WSNs becomes a complex task which requires an in-depth radio planning analysis. For that purpose, simulation results obtained with the aid of an in-house developed 3D Ray Launching code are presented. The scenarios under analysis are located at the Hospital of Navarre Complex (HNC), in the city of Pamplona. As hospitals have a wide variety of scenarios, the analysis has been carried out in different zones such as Boxes, where different medical sensors based on Bluetooth communication protocol have been deployed. The simulation results obtained have been validated with measurements within the scenario under analysis, exhibiting Bluetooth-based WSNs performance within hospital environments in terms of coverage/capacity relations. The proposed methodology can aid in obtaining optimal network configuration and hence performance of Bluetooth-based WSNs within medical/health service provision environments. [--]
Materias
Ray launching,
Bluetooth,
Wireless sensor networks,
Hospital environment,
Interference
Editor
MDPI
Publicado en
Proceedings 2017, 1(2), 3
Notas
Trabajo presentado al 3rd International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications, noviembre 15-30, 2016; Available online: https://sciforum.net/conference/ecsa-3.
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa eta Elektronikoa Saila
Entidades Financiadoras
The authors wish to acknowledge the financial support of project TEC2013-45585-C2-1-R, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competiveness.