METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOR PATIENT MONITORING

摘要

A wireless network having an architecture that resembles a peer-to-peer network has two types of nodes The network may be used in a medical instrumentation environment whereby the first type node may be wireless devices that could monitor physical parameters of a patient such as for example wireless oximeters The second type node are mobile wireless communicators that are adapted to receive the data from the wireless devices if they are within the transmission range of the wireless devices After an aggregation process involving the received data, each of the node communicators broadcasts or disseminates its most up to date data onto the network Any other relay communicator node in the network that is within the broadcast range of a broadcasting communicator node would receive the up to date data Each communicator in the network is capable of receiving and displaying data from a plurality of wireless devices