Autonomous Patient/Home Health Monitoring Powered by Energy Harvesting
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Mai Ali, Tuan Nguyen Gia, Abd-Elhamid Taha, Amir M. Rahmani, Tomi Westerlund, Pasi Liljeberg, Hannu TenhunenAuthors Info & Claims
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Abstract
This paper presents the design of an autonomous smart patient/home health monitoring system. Both patient physiological parameters as well as room conditions are being monitored continuously to insure patient safety. The sensors are connected on an IoT regime, where the collected data is wirelessly transferred to a nearby gateway which performs preliminary data analysis, commonly referred to as fog computing, to make sure emergency personnel and healthcare providers are notified in case patient being monitored is at risk. To achieve power autonomy three energy harvesting sources are proposed, namely, solar, RF and thermal. The design of RF energy harvesting system is demonstrated, where novel multiband antenna is fabricated as well as an efficient RF- DC rectifier achieving maximum efficiency of 84%. Finally, the sensor node is tested with different type of sensors and settings while being solely powered by a Photovoltaic (PV) solar cell.
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