So taking these aspects into
consideration, we have come up with a decentralization
scheme in the architecture by employing agents at ward
level only as shown in the figure.5. The purpose of the
agent at ward mesh node is to interpret the sensed
information from sensors and intimate to the doctor’s PDA
through a Mobile agent and the building mesh node
enables the wireless communication with the agent at the
appropriate ward and convey the information sent from the
Doctor’s PDA, similar to a nurse in one department would
convey the information to nurse in another department.
Based on these aspects so proposed, we have investigated
through simulation, the performance of this architecture
using the Opnet modeler. The results of this simulation
study would be discussed in the next sections. The details
on agent development are beyond the scope of this paper
and have been published elsewhere [14].