title: An integrated biomedical telemetry system for sleep monitoring employing a portable body area network of sensors (SENSATION).
abstract: A flexible, scaleable and cost-effective medical telemetry system is described for monitoring sleep-related disorders in the home environment. The system was designed and built for real-time data acquisition and processing, allowing for additional use in intensive care unit scenarios where rapid medical response is required in case of emergency. It comprises a wearable body area network of Zigbee-compatible wireless sensors worn by the subject, a central database repository residing in the medical centre and thin client workstations located at the subject's home and in the clinician's office. The system supports heterogeneous setup configurations, involving a variety of data acquisition sensors to suit several medical applications. All telemetry data is securely transferred and stored in the central database under the clinicians' ownership and control.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Medical Informatics, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. astaras@med.auth.gr
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Astaras
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arvanitidou
authors.forename: Ioanna
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Chouvarda
authors.forename: Vassilis
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kilintzis
authors.forename: Vassilis
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Koutkias
authors.forename: Eduardo Monton
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Sanchez
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stalidis
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Triantafyllidis
authors.forename: Nicos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Maglaveras
mesh_terms: D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D004864:Equipment and Supplies; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D017286:Polysomnography / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D019114:Remote Consultation / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D018511:Systems Integration; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D014159:Transducers; D014584:User-Computer Interface