Abstract
Current technological developments in the field of wireless
communications has enabled the use of ultra-low power, lightweight,
miniature types of smart health monitoring devices which are integrated
into a Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN). Vital signs in humans such
as temperature, heartbeat, and pulse can be tracked and detected from a
remote location with help of biomedical wireless sensors. This article
proposes a method to securely encrypt the patient’s data and transmit it
to the authorized doctor using wireless devices with in the hospital
premises. This article is aimed at generating electrocardiogram (ECG)
based key agreement scheme for the sake of generating a common key in a
body area network. This kind of smart health information communication
method by means of sensors and internet connection to servers is more
confidential and encrypted to protect the patient’s health data.
Security and Privacy mechanisms use a significant part of the available
energy and should therefore be energy efficient and light weight. The
Proposed work in this article is implemented in Telosb running
ContikiOS. The TelosB mote is designed for experimentation with
low-power personal wireless area network (LoWPAN) with IEEE
802.15.4/ZigBee/Telosb compliant RF transceiver. By using iris or
fingerprints, the security of this technique can be further improved.