Smart Border Routers for eHealthCare Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

With advances in low-power and low-cost wireless and sensor technologies, using WSNs in eHealthCare system has yielded tremendous efforts in recent years. However, most of previous researches adopt a remote server to process large scale of health sensor data forwarded by gateways that allow for interconnecting WSNs to IP network. In this paper, we present a prototype of a smart 6LoWPAN border router aimed to locally make decisions of health states using a Hidden Markov Model and enable wireless E-health care sensor network to seamlessly connect with IP network.