Wireless sensor network for monitoring the health of healthcare facility environments

Abstract

Continues health monitoring of healthcare facility environments is vital in maintaining their quality of service standards. This paper discuss a suitable hardware implementation using reconfigurable network nodes to setup such a network with monitoring facilities to measure carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, ammonia gas concentrations, light and noise levels, and people movement information within the facility. These information can be fused together to make vital decisions alerting the healthcare facility staff to attend to a particular location without having dedicated staff for continuous monitoring. This will help dedicating the healthcare facility staff for other important care duties while the wireless sensor network looks after the health of the facility environment.