A Body Sensor Networks Development Platform for Pervasive Healthcare

Author

Wang, B. ; Wang, Lingfeng ; Lin, S.J. ; Wu, D. ; Huang, B.Y. ; Zhang, Y.T. ; Yin, Q. ; Chen, W.

Author_Institution

IBHE & Key Lab. for BIHE, CAS, Shenzhen, China

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Technology advantages of wireless sensor networks have shown great deal of promises in various biomedical applications. In this paper we introduced a specially-designed body sensor networks (BSN) development platform for on-body physiological measurements and body-proximal wireless data communications. The BSN platform we have developed insofar include BSN node boards, a photoplethysmograph sensor electronics board, a respiratory inductive plethysmograph sensor electronics board, a battery board with a charger IC, a base-station board and several prototyping boards. We have designed the software architecture towards an efficient self-contained baseband protocol to network several BSN modules. Evaluation results from several applications indicated that the complete platform works as intended. Our BSN platform was designed in a low power and stackable manner so that in the future it could be easily extended with more functionality. We believe the BSN platform will greatly facilitate the research and development activities for pervasive healthcare, telemedicine, wearable medical devices and other emerging biomedical engineering fields.

Keywords

biomedical electronics; biomedical telemetry; body area networks; health care; wireless sensor networks; BSN node board; base-station board; battery board; biomedical applications; body sensor network; body-proximal wireless data communication; charger IC; healthcare; on-body physiological measurement; respiratory inductive plethysmograph sensor electronics board; self-contained baseband protocol; software architecture design; telemedicine; wearable medical device; wireless sensor network; Battery charge measurement; Biomedical measurements; Biosensors; Body sensor networks; Data communication; Medical services; Prototypes; Software prototyping; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering , 2009. ICBBE 2009. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2901-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2902-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5162152

Filename

5162152