Automated physiological data acquisition in ICU using a novel sensor bed implementation

Ever since it gained prominence IoT has been center stage being used for everything from industrial and athlete performance monitoring to medical application. With all the push toward miniaturization researchers have yet to produce a device that is both compact and capable of multiple parameter detection for hospital settings. We therefore present in this work an idea of a compact sensor bed capable of monitoring multiple parameters at once per sensor node continuously while enabling security and privacy by maintaining end to end encryption between source and sink. Since, the sensor nodes are battery powered we are also going to display results of the most common ones in use today with a discussion on selecting the best one to extend sensor life.