Biomedical Wireless Sensor Network Nordic Collaboration Project

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Biomedical Wireless Sensor NetworkNordic
Collaboration Project
Sponsored by
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BWSN Partners
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BWSN as part of Personalized Healthcare
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Background

• Increased population with chronicle diseases
  (e.g. diabetes 1 and hearth diseases), especially
  among old people
• Treatment and monitoring costs are high and
  increase dramatically
• Preference of treatment and medical monitoring in
  own environment (e.g. at home or at work),
  related to person rather than place
• Preference of complete mobility
• Preference of personal control with external
  communication for monitoring diseases and
  medication

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Overall Project Objectives

• Biomedical wireless sensor network as a basis for
  collaboration on product and services
  opportunities
• Sensors integrated with different communication
  solutions
• Common sensor communication specification and
  protocol
• Tested and verified in user environment
  Approved by IVS
• Promotion in the market included input to sensor
  communication standardization

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The BWSN Sensors

• Millicore DigiVent

Memscap Wireless Pressure Transducer
VTT Heart Monitoring Accelerator
Novosense CardioPatch
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IEEE standards
The BWSN Communication Solutions
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The BWSN Demonstration System
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Overall Focus and Roles

• Definitions and requirements (All)
• Sensors (MemsCap, Millicore, Novosense, VTT)
• WSN communication chip (Novelda, others from the
  market)
• Sensor specific integration local processing,
  sensor interface (Sensor companies, Acreo, Imego)
• User interface and system integration (Sensor
  companies, Imego, IVS)
• Testing in user environment (IVS-Rikshospitalet,
  Novelda)
• Commercial evaluation, promotion and input to
  sensor network standardization (Ericsson, All)

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Biomedical Wireless Sensor Networks -II
Based on the results from the BWSN project, the
project partners extended with SINTEF Norway,
have suggested a BWSN project phase 2 (BWSN-II),
to be performed in 2008-2009
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In the BWSN-II we propose to extend the BWSN
focusing on the following topics

• Analysis of the patient treatment life cycle with
  focus on monitoring needs by use of wireless
  sensors related to different diseases, patient
  profiles and treatment life cycle including home
  care
• Integrate additional biomedical sensors
• Ensure reliability in the monitoring of patient
  vital signs (EMC, stability, security,
  robustness)
• Ensure reliability with multiple wireless network
  link technologies

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BWSN-II continue

• Sensor network integration platform (modular
  solutions, implementation of sensors from
  multiple suppliers)
• Integration with a central hospital database and
  decision support systems
• Support the effort of building a test bed at the
  Interventional Centre for testing biomedical
  wireless sensor networks
• Extended testing of sensor configurations related
  different diseases, patient profiles and
  treatment life cycle
• Commercial partner agreements for offering sensor
  networks on the market