Challenges and application of wireless multimedia sensor networks to telemedicine

Abstract

The increasing need for better healthcare is one of the ercest challenges faced by both developed and developing countries. The aging population has led to shortage of specialists in the medical eld, depriving remote and underprivileged areas of better healthcare. The advances in information and communication tech- nologies o er hope of technologies that have a great potential to reduce mortality and morbidity while improving the healthcare service delivery. Telemedicine is a magni cent tool that bridges the gap between the specialists and patients, bring- ing specialty care to the location of the patient in life time. This thesis discusses the application wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs) to telemedicine, a WMSN enabled telemedicine architecture integrated with a 4G wireless cellular network is proposed. It is followed by potential solutions for some ongoing chal- lenges like the high bandwidth demand, security and energy consumption. Finally an energy-e cient routing algorithm is proposed.