Design and Implementation of Wireless Sensors Network and Cloud Based Telemedicine System for Rural Clinics and Health Centers

Telemedical centers use ICTs to overcome geographical barriers, and increase access to healthcare services. This is particularly beneficial for rural and underserved communities in developing countries – groups that traditionally suffer from lack of access to healthcare. In addition reviewing and discussing the current attempts in wireless body area network technology, a WBAN system that has been designed for healthcare applications will be presented. The wireless system in the WBAN uses medical bands to obtain physiological data from sensor nodes. The medical bands are selected to reduce the interference and thus increase the coexistence of sensor node devices with other network devices available at medical centers. The collected data is transferred to remote stations with a multi-hopping technique using the medical gateway wireless boards. In his paper we propose a complete architecture design and implementation, with real test on site for patient data collection, telemedicine system with mutli-users facilities for both sides, Doctors, patients and medical centers. The system offer the facilities of connecting to telehealth WSN and has two types of dash boards; for patients side and for doctor side with the facilities of displaying in one screen capture the case under supervision from a doctor. The core of the proposed system is based on using web interfaces hosted on cloud environment. We add a big data technology analytical tool to analyze the patient data stored on cloud database to get some information – geographically distributed for example which may help the decision maker for example. It is an effective solution for providing specialty healthcare in the form of improved access and reduced cost to the rural patients and the reduced professional isolation of the rural doctors. Telemedical centers can enable ordinary doctors to perform extra-ordinary tasks. The proposed system got real results applied on Pulse company wearable Mobile ECG device that can make a remote monitoring to the patient using cloud computing. Index Term—Telemedicine, Wireless sensor network, eHealthcare, Medical Center, Cloud cpmputing, Rural Health Clinics. Health monitoring system. ——————————  ——————————