Although I can’t attend this as I am at the IASummit, it looks like it will be a great talk.

Title: “Wireless Sensor Networks in mHealth Applications”
Speaker: Ms. Karla Felix Navarro
When: 10:30 am, Monday March 27, 2006
Where: MacLeod Rm 418, University of British Columbia

Abstract:

As the worlds aged population grows many governments are looking to
remote healthcare monitoring solutions. It is certainly cheaper to keep
the elderly and infirm in their own homes rather than in aged-care
facilities. However will these remote and wireless monitoring devices
deliver what they promise? The medical profession will need strong
evidence before they embrace such techniques. In this work the authors
built a remote monitoring prototype which uses Motes, a PDA and a
network management application to show that commodity-based hardware
may provide one answer to the problem of remotely monitoring people in
their own homes. A novel network management approach for data fusion
and to the handling of the potentially huge amount of data is applied.

Speaker’s biography:

Karla Felix Navarro is a PhD candidate and a Lecturer in Computer
Networks at the Faculty of Information Technology, University of
Technology Sydney. She is a Cisco Certified Academy Instructor (CCAI)
for CCNP and CCNA courses, and was part of the Asia Pacific Authoring
team of the CCNA v3 online curricula. Karla holds 13 international
publications as primary author and co-author in the areas of Wireless
Sensor Network Applications, Online Learning, and Brain Computer
Interfaces. She has also been an IT Networking consultant in Mexico
and in Australia, and now works on a temporary basis for the National
Research Council of Canada as an IT Network Specialist.

ALL ARE WELCOME!

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