WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM ADAPTABLE FOR PATIENT MONITORING

摘要

A wireless network, used in medical instrumentation environment, having an architecture that resembles a peer-to-peer network has types of nodes, a first sender type node and a second receiver/relay type node The first type node may be wireless devices that monitor physical parameters of a patient such as wireless oximeters The second type node are mobile wireless communicators that receive the data from the wireless devices that are within the transmission range of the wireless devices After an aggregation proces involving the received data, each of the node communicators broadcasts or disseminates its most up to date data onto the network which is received by any relay communicator node within the broadcasting range Therefore, communicators that are out of the transmitting range of a wireless device are apppzed of the patient condition Each communicator can receive and display data from a plurality of wireless devices.