Dependable wireless healthcare

Research summary

Project focuses on a wireless body area network (WBAN) as a core of ideal ubiquitous healthcare infrastructure, which can provide us new paradigm to create innovations for future healthcare in academia and industry by employing advanced wireless technologies which Finland and Japan have been leading in a world. WBAN is a crucial wearable and implant network sensing various vital data for diagnosis and controlling actuators for health treatment around a body, and constructs a ubiquitous healthcare network combining with existing radio, and optical, networks such as a mobile cellular network and Internet. The research is divided into three paradigms: Dependable wireless communication in healthcare applications, developing the IEEE802.15.6-2012 standard, and improving the efficiency of clinical approval for compliance for novel WBAN devices.

Description

Research info

Research title
Dependable wireless healthcare

Research timeline
1.5.2013 - 1.4.2016

Keywords
dependable wireless IEEE802.15.6-2012 medical ICT ubiquitous healthcare infrastructure Wireless Body Area Network

Region
Asia

Countries
Finland, Japan

Institution
University of Oulu
CWC

Head of research
Jari Iinatti

Partners
Yokohama National University

Contact information

Record last updated
27.8.2015