Remote Medical Emergency Response Through Near-me Area Network

Abstract

With the advancement in technology, there have been found ways in which even Healthcare can be made readily available. Technologies involving Body Sensor Networks, Wireless Communications and Security in wireless media, have helped to a great extent to make it possible. With this project, we are trying to make remote healthcare readily and quickly available. The secure automatic emergency response system that we develop helps in attending to patients quickly by propagating a help signal to potential healthcare provider. The signal propagates from sensors on a patient till it reaches the nearest Healthcare node and alerts it informing an authentic Healthcare provider near the patient, in case of emergency. For this kind of propagation, we take the help of a Networking technology called the "Near-me Area Network". A Near-me Area Network helps in full duplex communication between nodes in spatial proximity, precisely, sending the readings pulled from Body Sensor on the patient and receiving appropriate help from the healthcare provider. This avoids the need for human intervention from the side of patient in getting help for the health ailment. Given that communication is wireless, and several intermediate nodes are involved in the transmission process, security is an issue. We take care of securing the location and vitals information of the patient by encrypting all the data that is being transmitted. We also try to eliminate duplicate and unauthentic signals by posing a few constraints on the initial signal generation. Our simulation results show that the system determines the presence of a potential Healthcare Provider within 2 minutes and if the presence is positive, healthcare is provided to the patient readily by the identified health official.