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International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB'05)   pp. 235-241
Wireless Remote Healthcare Monitoring with Motes
Einstein Lubrin, University of Technology - Sydney
Elaine Lawrence, University of Technology - Sydney
Karla Felix Navarro, University of Technology - Sydney

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Abstract
As the world’s aged population grows many governments are looking to remote healthcare monitoring solutions. It is certainly cheaper to keep the elderly and infirm in their own homes rather than in aged-care facilities. However will these remote and wireless monitoring devices deliver what they promise? The medical profession will need strong evidence before they embrace such techniques. In this paper the authors describe the building of a remote monitoring prototype which uses Motes, a PDA and a network management application to show that commodity-based hardware may provide one answer to the problem of remotely monitoring people in their own homes. Privacy and security issues associated with such monitoring are also discussed.
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Index Terms- wireless sensor network, body area networks, health monitoring Citation:  Einstein Lubrin, Elaine Lawrence, Karla Felix Navarro, "Wireless Remote Healthcare Monitoring with Motes," icmb, pp. 235-241,  International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB'05),  2005