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）资助的。健康监护人项目通过无线健康提供医疗服务：远程监控，可穿戴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），同时实现对移动的个人的护理，促进独立生活。今天，医生和护士手动记录和跟踪病人？status.面对日益复杂的感测数据和测量程序，这种手动过程无法保证准确性和效率。然而，远程自动监测在技术上已经可行。该程序介绍了一个BodyLAN互连身体传感器的数据收集网关，？健康卫士？反过来，Health Guardian连接到外部网络，传播数据以进行进一步处理。利用日益普及的P2P个人网络，该项目使新的病人护理模式的基础上P2P网络之间的病人和护理提供者。更广泛的影响：无线健康将进入家庭、工作场所和农村社区。为新兴的新应用和商业机会奠定基础，这些应用和商业机会的范围从在健康，健康和安全方面互动的个人网络到临床患者的康复和疾病管理。在教育方面，创建交叉项目导向的本科生和研究生课程。智力优势：在延迟容忍，可靠的网络之间的身体局域网，监护人和互联网克服间歇性无线连接的创新研究;同行之间的合作，共享关键资源和发现？有用吗？借助社交网络技术的邻居;通过临床试验进行概念验证。

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.