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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Body Area Network."”.
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A low power, reconfigurable fabric body area network for healthcare applications
Body Area Networks (BANs) are gaining prominence for their capability to revolutionize medical monitoring, diagnosis and treatment. This thesis describes a BAN that uses conductive fabrics (e-textiles) worn by the user to act as a power distribution and data communication network to sensors on the …
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Implanted Antennas and Intra-Body Propagation Channel for Wireless Body Area Network
… Devices are important components of the Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) as a promising technology in biotelemetry, e-health care and hyperthermia applications. The design of WBAN faces many challenges, such as frequency band selection, channel modeling, antenna design, physical layer (PHY) …
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AUTOBAN : secure low-power body area network for real-time physiological status monitoring
… and reference implementation named OBAN (Open Body Area Network), the purpose of which is to provide an open, government-owned framework for integrating multiple wearable sensors and applications. The OBAN implementation accepts data from various sensors enabling calculation of physiological …
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A body area network for wearable health monitoring : conductive fabric garment utilizing DC-power-line carrier communication
… in the battlefield. To fully integrate wearable networks into a user's daily life, these systems must be minimally invasive and minimally intrusive. At the same time, such wearable networks require multiple sensors and electronic components to be mounted on the body. Unfortunately, typical …
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Simulation of dynamic on-body wave propagations : comparison with measured values.
Wireless body area network (WBAN) technology shows potential for improving human quality of life by facilitating remote, long-term health monitoring. Designing small, wearable, and power efficient on-body WBAN sensors requires an understanding of electromagnetic (EM) wave propagation behavior on …
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A Novel Intrabody Communication Transceiver for Biomedical Applications
Intrabody communication (IBC) is a new physical layer defined in the recently ratified wireless body area network (WBAN) IEEE 802.15.6 standard. The cable-free IBC technology uses body tissue as a propagation medium instead of air. While recent studies have shown a degradation of transmission …
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Ultra Low Power Wake-up Receiver with Unique Node Addressing for Wireless Sensor Nodes
… devices. For this reason, devices for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) applications must consume very little power. To save power, it is desirable to turn off or put to sleep a device when not in use. However, a transceiver, which is the most power hungry block of a wireless sensor node, needs …
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Low-power dual-band on-body antenna for wireless body sensor networks
In Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN), the implanted biosensor collects various physiological data and wirelessly transmits the information to external medical devices in real time. The antenna design for this application faces great challenges as the microwavepropagation medium is not the free …
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Reliable and Energy Efficient Network Protocols for Wireless Body Area Networks
In a wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) various sensors are attached on clothing, on the body or are even implanted under the skin. The wireless nature of the network and the wide variety of sensors offers numerous new, practical and innovative applications. A motivating example can be found in the …
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Energy saving and reliability of wireless body area networks for health applications
A Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN) consists of several biological sensors. WBSN can be employed to monitor patients’ medical conditions. Energy consumption and reliability are critical issues in WBSNs, as the nodes that are placed near the sink node consume more energy. All biomedical packets …
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Biology-informed communication protocols for bio-molecular networks
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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Investigation into the design of ultra-wideband (UWB) and multi-band antennas
… (CPW) fed printed UWB antenna for compact, body-worn applications. We investigated the antenna performance using empirical optimisation. The work on CPW-fed printed antennas has led to the development of multi-band antennas also. For UWB antennas, we have first considered the modifications …
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Abstracting information on body area networks
… are needed as pervasive components in and on the body. They will tend for people’s need of self-monitoring and facilitate healthcare delivery. These components around a human body that communicate to sense and act in a coordinated fashion make a Body Area Network (BAN). In most cases, and in our …
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Pico-grid: Multiple Multitype Energy Harvesting System
… for wireless sensor nodes (WSN) and wireless body area network (WBAN) applications. The idea for the system is derived from the operation of a micro-grid and therefore is termed as a pico-grid and it is capable of simultaneously delivering power from multiple and multitype energy harvesters to …
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Low-Power RF Front-End Design for Wireless Body Area Networks
Wireless body area networks (WBANs) have tremendous potential to benefit from wireless communication technology and are expected to make sweeping changes in the future human health care and medical fields. While the prospects for WBAN products are high, meeting required device performance with a …
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Low Power Merged LNA and Mixer Design for Medical Implant Communication Services
… The implanted devices aid organs and control body functions of patients to support specific treatments, and monitor patients continuously so that necessary action can be taken in advance to avoid serious conditions. To enable to use MICS applications, several requirements must be satisfied. An …
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Communication technologies and data processing for safety
… may be located in remote, difficult to access areas (mountains, sea, caves), and sometimes in extremely difficult weather conditions. Moreover, emergency workers must arrive very rapidly at the disaster scene at any time of the day or night, and there is always the possibility of car crashes or …