ETSI SmartBAN in Wireless Healthcare

Remote and home care, 24/7 monitoring, and other new procedures are modernizing the processes of professional care as well as enabling better self-monitoring capabilities for health and wellbeing enthusiastic. Due to the aging, societies all around the world are coming to lack of decent healthcare services. Thus, any relief in nursing work is preferred. Wireless technology will be an enabler to accelerate this paradigm change. Monitoring person's own vital signs is not tight to a specific location but data collection can be done real-time wherever and whenever. Also, numerous sensors can be used to collect appropriate vital data. Automated data collection enables continuous monitoring of health status or progress of certain symptom, but enables also efficient data post-processing and access to health data ubiquitously. European Telecommunications Standards Institute's (ETSI) SmartBAN is the newest wireless technology dedicated to body area networks to transfer vital information in reliable manner and with low power consumption. Not only used for outpatient, the SmartBAN is also available for use in different hospital, nursing home, training, etc. procedures.