Stud Health Technol Inform. 2017;238:68-71.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Konstantinos Katzis, Richard W Jones, Georgios Despotou
PMID: 28679889
Recent technological advances in electronics, wireless communications and low cost medical sensors generated a plethora of Wearable Medical Devices (WMDs), which are capable of generating considerably large amounts of new, unstructured real-time data. This contribution outlines how this data can be propagated to a healthcare system through the internet, using long distance Radio Access Networks (RANs) and proposes a novel communication system architecture employing White Space Devices (WSD) to provide seamless connectivity to its users. Initial findings indicate that the proposed communication system can facilitate broadband services over a large geographical area taking advantage of the freely available TV White Spaces (TVWS).
Keywords: Body Area Networks; TVWS; Wearable Medical Devices
