Cardiac Monitoring of Marathon Runners Using Disruption-Tolerant Wireless Sensors [chapter]

Djamel Benferhat, Frédéric Guidec, Patrice Quinton
2012 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
In most current biomedical monitoring applications, data acquired by sensors attached to a patient are either transmitted directly to a monitoring console for real-time processing, or they are simply recorded on the sensor unit for deferred analysis. In contrast collecting and transmitting biomedical data continuously over long distances in outdoor conditions is still a challenge. In this paper we investigate the possibility of using disruption-tolerant wireless sensors to monitor the cardiac
more » ... tivity of runners during a marathon race, using o-the-shelf sensing devices and a limited number of base stations deployed along the marathon route. Preliminary experiments conducted with a few volunteers running around a university campus conrm that this approach is viable, and suggest that it should scale up to a real marathon.
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-35377-2_55 fatcat:2yc3ahmavrex3nbk3xfx42mmg4