title: Energy efficient simulator for patient monitoring in Body Sensor Networks.
abstract: The medical tracking of patients carried out from a distance by means of wireless technology, incorporating various sensors simultaneously connected to the body of an individual, can promote health in suitable time. This article proposes a simulator for the monitoring of human health. This prototype simulates the workings of a BSN (Body Sensor Network) functioning as a sensor (electrophysiological signal) that is to be monitored, which utilizes a strategy based on the concept of data fusion. This tool incorporates a policy of economizing energy which has as its main objective increasing the operating time of the system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computing, Catholic University of Goias, Goiania, GO 74605-110 Brazil. iwens@ucg.br
authors.forename: Iwens G
authors.initials: IG
authors.lastname: Sene
authors.forename: Adson F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: da Rocha
authors.forename: Talles M G
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: de A Barbosa
authors.forename: Francisco A A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: de O Nascimento
authors.forename: Hervaldo S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Carvalho
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted