Patent ID: 8294572

Claim:
A system for maintaining a sensor network, comprising: a plurality of sensors, each of the plurality of sensors capable of being attached to a user's body and comprising: a wireless transceiver configured to wirelessly transmit sensor data, and a sensor attention indicator configured to generate a visual output, an audio output, or any combination thereof in response to receiving a sensor attention indicator activation command; and a base station adapted to wirelessly receive data from each of the plurality of sensors, the base station comprising: a fault-detection system adapted to analyze data from each of the plurality of sensors and to detect, for each of the plurality of sensors, a faulty operating state of the sensor based on the sensor data received from the sensor, and a decision engine embedded in the base station and adapted to transmit the sensor attention indicator activation command to the corresponding one of the plurality of sensors based on an output from the fault-detection system indicative the faulty operating state.