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Dear CCSE Community,

You are all cordially invited to attend a seminar by Dr. Muhammad Wasim Raad from the COE department. The seminar will take place November 19 at 2:30 pm in Building 22: Room 119. Below is the seminar information.

Title: Advances in Mobile Telemedicine & IOT (Internet of things) and the Future of MBAN (Medical Body Area Networks)

Abstract: Chronic diseases are becoming the world’s leading causes of death and disability, and are predicted to account for almost three quarters of all deaths by 2020. Each year, the number of deaths caused by cardiovascular diseases and hypertension is estimated to be 16.7 million and 7.1 million, respectively. With the advent of modern technology like  IOT ( the internet of things), RFID & sensor networks , it has become possible to deliver  healthcare services  remotely to areas where patients cannot access hospitals or physicians using telecommunication technology in what is known as  telemedicine.  In addition to that, there has been increasing interest recently in wearable/implantable health monitoring devices like the heart pacemaker. BANs (Body Area Networks) are attracting growing attention lately as a solution to support applications & services in healthcare. The IOT is rapidly emerging, and the number of connected devices are expected to grow exponentially (10s billions in 2020), with the continuous miniaturization of these wearable devices. The talk will shed light on the ongoing research in telemedicine utilizing RFID  & biosensors in COE in addition to presenting the state of the art advances in BANs & MBAN. The talk will also highlight some of the most important European funded projects utilizing BAN, and the main challenges and limitations, in addition to the main emerging BAN & MBAN standards focusing on open research areas.

Speaker: Dr. Muhammad Wasim Raad

Bio: Dr. Muhammad Wasim Raad joined King Fahd University Petroleum Minerals, computer Eng Dept  1986, where he worked as a lecturer and researcher in the field of Digital Signal Processing  & RFID. He gave a number of workshops and tutorials on smart cards and RFID.

He established recently the first Smart Card & RFID university lab in the region to support student projects as well as conducting short courses for the  industry in RFID/NFC.

Obtained his Phd from University Bradford UK 2005 in embedded systems area, and was involved recently in a funded project  in   Telemedicine   for  Elderly people  with  chronic  diseases. Dr raad also gave a number of talks on telemedicine in international  conferences.

Regards,

Dr. Mohamed El-Attar

Associate Professor :: Software Engineering

Information and Computer Science Department

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia