Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vol 14, No 2: May 2019

Characterization of a low consumption wireless sensor node for the intensive transmission of physiological signals

Ricardo Yauri (National University of Engineering)
Santiago RubiƱos (National University of Callao)
Juan Grados (National University of Callao)
Mario Chauca (National University of Callao)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 May 2019

Abstract

This paper describes the development and implementation of low power consumption wireless sensor nodes for the periodic monitoring of physiological signals with intensive data transmission, using Wi-Fi and ZigBee wireless communication modules, obtaining operation characteristics from the energy point of view that allow to increase the life time of the sensor node. The sensor nodes are designed and built using low energy consumption electronic devices to evaluate their energy performance using current data, transmission time, data transmission period and the relationship with the sensor node's lifetime when transmitting electrocardiographic (ECG), temperature and pulse type physiological signals. The development of this work generates recommendations for the design, development and construction of sensor nodes where the energy consumption of the wireless communication modules is evaluated. In this way, results are obtained that can allow the data transmission period, current consumption and size of data sent to be related to the operating time, defining the operating conditions and wireless technologies that allow the optimization of energy consumption when data is sent to Internet monitoring applications.

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