Title :
High speed intra-body communication for personal health care
Author :
Zhu, Hongjie ; Xu, Ruoyu ; Yuan, Jie
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon, China
Abstract :
Intra-body communication (IBC) uses the conductive human body as the communication channel for data exchange. As the bio-sensor research is moving towards portable, wearable and implantable designs, IBC has significant potential applications for personal health care. Previous IBC research mainly focused on the electromagnetic (EM) IBC scheme, which resulted in low data rate (kbps). In this paper, we systematically studied the electric field (EF) IBC scheme, which enables 10 Mbps data rate. The human body channel is thoroughly measured with attenuation, noise and distortion for the IBC application. High speed EF IBC links are tested with various modulation schemes. The minimum transmission power of different links is measured.
Keywords :
biomedical telemetry; biosensors; body area networks; electronic data interchange; health care; high-speed techniques; biosensor research; bit rate 10 Mbit/s; communication channel; conductive human body; data exchange; electromagnetic IBC scheme; high speed intra-body communication; human body channel; implantable biomedical sensor; low data rate communication; personal health care; portable sensor; wearable sensor; Biosensing Techniques; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Humans; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Self Care; Telemedicine; Telemetry;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3296-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332685
