Home healthcare platform based on wireless sensor networks

As the world’s aged population grows many governments are looking to remote healthcare monitoring solutions. With the recent active research activities in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), the development and realization of a light-weighted, low-cost and wireless home healthcare monitor has become feasible. A novel embedded remote healthcare system based on a commercially available wireless biomedical sensor networks is proposed in this paper. The sensor node device utilizes MSP430 microcontroller and operates on TinyOS operating system. The wireless communication between the sensor nodes and the care base-station used IEEE 802.15.4/Zigbee standard. The biophysical signal from elder is detected and radioed to a care base-station for monitoring.