Evaluation Parameters for Healthcare Monitoring System in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

The Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a wireless network that consists of distributed sensor nodes that monitor specific physical or environmental events or phenomena, such as temperature, sound, vibration, pressure, or motion, at different locations. The first development of WSN was first motivated by military purposes in order to do battlefield surveillance. Nowadays, new technologies have reduced the size, cost, and power of these sensor nodes besides the development of wireless interfaces making the WSN one of the hottest topics of wireless communication.