NetSE: Small: Collaborative Research: The Health Guardian- A Gateway to Networked Wellness

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)提供资金的。健康卫士项目通过无线健康提供医疗服务：远程监测、可穿戴式身体区域传感器和无线通信。其目标是通过提高家庭患者护理质量(并降低成本)促进独立生活，同时实现对流动个人的护理。今天，医生和护士手动记录和跟踪患者？状态。面对日益复杂的传感数据和测量过程，这种人工过程不能保证准确性和效率。然而，远程、自动化的监测在技术上已经变得可行。该计划将BodyLAN将身体传感器互连到数据收集网关？Health Guardian？反过来，健康卫士会连接到外部网络来传播数据，以便进一步处理。利用P2P个人网络的日益普及，该项目在患者和护理提供者之间实现了基于P2P网络的新的患者护理模式。更广泛的影响：无线健康将延伸到家庭、工作场所环境和农村社区。为不断涌现的新应用和商业机会奠定基础，范围从在健康、健康和安全方面相互作用的个人网络到临床患者的康复和疾病管理。在教育方面，创建面向交叉项目的本科生和研究生课程。智力优势：在身体局域网、卫士和互联网之间的延迟容忍、可靠网络方面的创新研究，克服间歇性无线连接；同行之间的合作，以共享关键资源并发现有用的？借助社交网络技术的邻居；通过临床试验验证概念。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The Health Guardian project provides medical care through Wireless Health: remote monitoring, wearable body area sensors and wireless communications. The goal is to promote independent living by improving home patient care quality (and reduce costs) while enabling the care of mobile individuals. Today, doctors and nurses manually record and track patients? status. This manual process cannot guarantee accuracy and efficiency in the face of increasing complexity of sensed data and measurement procedures. However, remote, automated monitoring has become technically feasible. This program introduces a BodyLAN interconnecting body sensors to a data collection gateway, the ?Health Guardian?. In turn, the Health Guardian connects to external networks to propagate the data for further processing. Leveraging the growing popularity of P2P personal networks, this project enables new patient care models based on P2P networking among patients and care providers. Broader Impact: Wireless health will reach into homes, workplace environments and rural communities. The foundation for emerging new applications and business opportunities that range from networking of individuals interacting in health, wellness and safety to rehabilitation and disease management of clinical patients. On the education front, creation of cross cutting project-oriented undergraduate and graduate courses.Intellectual merits: Innovative research in delay tolerant, reliable networking between Body LAN, Guardian and Internet overcoming intermittent wireless connectivity; cooperation among peers to share critical resources and discover ?useful? neighbors with the help of Social Network techniques; concept validation via clinical trials.