Versatile personal server for remote monitoring

The main objective of this project is the implementation of a flexible system that can be easily adapted to different kinds of environments. This versatility of this system will allow its adaptation to be used in various situations like remote patient mon itoring inside and outside the hospital, catastrophe response, rehabilitation. The general system scheme is showed in the figure. A sensor network will be placed on the patient in order to acquire different measures, like pulse, temperature. This sensor network will communicate with a personal server, a central device in charge of acquiring data from the sensors. This communication can be implemented by wire and wireless connections (Zigbee, BlueTooth...). The sensors in charge of the body monitoring con stitute the BAN (Body Area Network). The personal server coordinates the data acquisition from the BAN network and also from other environmental sensors. As a personal server a PDA will be used. Personal server sends the data acquired by the sensor networ k to a control centre that will be in charge of processing this data. The communication between both devices will be based in different transmission technologies (radio frequency, GSM, GPRS, 3G...). The chosen transmission technology depends of the scenar io.