Provision of Electronic Healthcare Services via DVB-RCS Satellite Communication Technology
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The advent of broadband communications technologies has paved the way to the wide application of innovative, yet resource-demanding electronic healthcare services like real time telemedicine or high bandwidth store and forward transmission of medical data from underserved locations. Satellite broadband communications technologies, such as the Digital Video Broadcasting with Return Channel via Satellite (DVB-RCS) technology, attempt to offer wide-area broadband connectivity comparable to the terrestrial broadband technologies, when the available data rates and costs are considered, even in geographically remote areas where the terrestrial technologies really suffer. This paper describes a wide-area tele-medicine platform, specially suited for homecare services, based on the DVB-RCS and Wi-Fi communications technologies. The presented platform combines remote medical data collection and transmission, patient monitoring and tele-conference services. Possible operational scenarios involving the aforementioned system and test results regarding tele-monitoring and medical data transfer are also presented.
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