Title :
Wireless Ultra-Low Power Smart Data Acquisition System for Pressure Sensing in Medical Application
Author :
Arshak, K. ; Jafer, E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Limerick Univ.
Abstract :
The development of a wireless sensor microsystems containing all the components of data acquisition system, such as sensors, signal-conditioning circuits, analog-digital converter, embedded microcontroller (MCU), and RF communication modules has become now the focus of attention in many biomedical applications. This paper discusses innovation circuits and system techniques for building advanced smart medical devices (SMD). Low power consumption and high reliability are among the main criteria that must be given priority when designing such wirelessly powered microsystems. Different capacitive readout circuits used for pressure sensing will be described. An example for a low power wireless system developed for multi-sensors monitoring will be presented
Keywords :
biomedical electronics; biomedical measurement; capacitive sensors; data acquisition; low-power electronics; microsensors; pressure sensors; wireless sensor networks; RF communication modules; analog-digital converter; biomedical applications; capacitive readout circuits; embedded microcontroller; medical application; multisensors monitoring; pressure sensing; signal-conditioning circuits; smart medical devices; wireless sensor microsystems; wireless smart data acquisition system; Analog-digital conversion; Biomedical equipment; Biosensors; Circuits; Data acquisition; Intelligent sensors; Medical services; RF signals; Sensor systems and applications; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Microelectronics, 2006 25th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Belgrade
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0117-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICMEL.2006.1650934