TY - GEN
T1 - A study on intra-body communication for personal healthcare monitoring system
AU - Alshehab, Abdullah
AU - Kobayash, Nao
AU - Kikuchi, Ryosuke
AU - Ruiz, Jordi
AU - Shimamoto, Shigeru
AU - Ishibashi, Hiroshi
PY - 2008/10/6
Y1 - 2008/10/6
N2 - In this paper we propose the use of intrabody communication (IBC) for a personal health monitoring system employing inexpensive, lightweight, miniature sensor platforms. Body area networks (BANs) with physiological sensors will improve current healthcare services and at the same time significantly reduce costs to public health systems. We are primarily looking to reduce the transmission power consumption of the wireless communication links by using very low power IBC to connect the BAN sensors, a change which has also been shown to increase the durability of the sensors. There has been no specific study carried out to date on the optimal modulation scheme for such IBC. For this reason, we investigate the transmission characteristics of the human body as a conductor of signal up to 2.4 GHz by considering different transmitter power consumption and data transmission rates. We believe that an optimal modulation scheme for IBC would allow an increase of the data transmission bit rate in our personal health monitoring system model, therefore we evaluated the performance of two different modulation schemes, QPSK and BPSK. Our experiment is conducted with point-topoint communication between an Electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor located in the chest region and a central hub located on the left wrist.
AB - In this paper we propose the use of intrabody communication (IBC) for a personal health monitoring system employing inexpensive, lightweight, miniature sensor platforms. Body area networks (BANs) with physiological sensors will improve current healthcare services and at the same time significantly reduce costs to public health systems. We are primarily looking to reduce the transmission power consumption of the wireless communication links by using very low power IBC to connect the BAN sensors, a change which has also been shown to increase the durability of the sensors. There has been no specific study carried out to date on the optimal modulation scheme for such IBC. For this reason, we investigate the transmission characteristics of the human body as a conductor of signal up to 2.4 GHz by considering different transmitter power consumption and data transmission rates. We believe that an optimal modulation scheme for IBC would allow an increase of the data transmission bit rate in our personal health monitoring system model, therefore we evaluated the performance of two different modulation schemes, QPSK and BPSK. Our experiment is conducted with point-topoint communication between an Electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor located in the chest region and a central hub located on the left wrist.
KW - Body area networks
KW - Body transmission characteristics
KW - Intra-body communication
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U2 - 10.1109/HEALTH.2008.4600139
DO - 10.1109/HEALTH.2008.4600139
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:52949143155
SN - 9781424422814
T3 - 2008 10th IEEE Intl. Conf. on e-Health Networking, Applications and Service, HEALTHCOM 2008
SP - 219
EP - 220
BT - 2008 10th IEEE Intl. Conf. on e-Health Networking, Applications and Service, HEALTHCOM 2008
T2 - 2008 10th IEEE Intl. Conf. on e-Health Networking, Applications and Service, HEALTHCOM 2008
Y2 - 7 July 2008 through 9 July 2008
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