An ANT Based Wireless Body Sensor Biofeedback Network for Medical E-Health Care

Author

Johansson, Alf ; Shen, Wei ; Xu, Youzhi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Jonkoping Univ., Jonkoping, Sweden

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents an ultra low power wireless insole sensor biofeedback and gait analysis system for rehabilitation of balance control for post stroke patients and gait related rehabilitation. The system integrates ANT wireless protocol, a wireless home E-health care sensor network and open-source mobile device technology. The paper also presents methods to time synchronize the two sole sensors. The system has been evaluated and it shows good performance in power consumption, communication latency, coexistence with WiFi/BlueTooth/GSM.

Keywords

Bluetooth; body sensor networks; cellular radio; gait analysis; health care; home computing; patient care; protocols; synchronisation; wireless LAN; ANT wireless protocol; ANT-based wireless body sensor biofeedback network; Bluetooth; GSM; WiFi; balance control rehabilitation; communication latency; gait analysis system; gait-related rehabilitation; medical e-health care; open-source mobile device technology; post stroke patients; power consumption; sole sensors; time synchronization; ultralow-power wireless insole sensor biofeedback; wireless home E-health care sensor network; Biological control systems; Power demand; Protocols; Receivers; Servers; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2011 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

ISSN

2161-9646

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6250-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/wicom.2011.6040656

Filename

6040656