%0 Journal Article
%T Medical applications of wireless sensor networks ¨C current status and future directions
%A Kre£¿imir Grgi£¿
%A Drago £¿agar
%A Vi£¿nja Kri£¿anovi£¿
%J Medicinski Glasnik
%D 2012
%I Medical Association of Zenica-Doboj Canton
%X In recent years a significant development of BASN (Body AreaSensor Networks) as a special subclass of WSN (Wireless SensorNetworks) has emerged. These networks have enabled a rapiddevelopment of telemedicine systems, which provide remote monitoringof patients and their vital parameters. The article givesa short overview of the BASN networks. Furthermore, a generalsystem architecture of telemedicine systems is proposed. The proposedarchitecture includes a local sensory area, a communicationnetwork area and an institutional network area. It also providesthe security and privacy of patient-related data. Furthermore, thearticle surveys some existing telemedicine systems. Finally, somecurrent problems are explained and the directions for the futuredevelopment of the telemedicine systems are given.
%K wireless
%K network
%K sensor
%K telemedicine
%U http://ljkzedo.com.ba/medglasnik/vol91/4.pdf