Health monitoring systems for massive emergency situations

Abstract

In this project our goal is to create a health monitoring system that can transmit the vital signs of a patient through an ad-hoc wireless sensor network for a mass causality emergency application. The health monitoring device is to be placed on an injured victim during an emergency and act as a sensor node to connect to a wireless ad-hoc network to transmit the patient's vital sign data. The target market for this system is emergency response institutions such as municipal emergency services, city and state EMS and federal emergency services (e.g., FEMA or the National Guard). Most Wireless health monitoring systems targeted home users and we have not found too many systems designed for emergency responses. Therefore, we expect our system to encounter only a small amount of competitions.