A high data rate telemetry system for multi-channel biosignal recording

Author

Gosselin, Benoit ; Faniel, Laurent ; Sawan, Mohamad

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., Ecole Polytech. de Montreal, Montreal, QC

fYear

2006

fDate

Nov. 29 2006-Dec. 1 2006

Firstpage

170

Lastpage

173

Abstract

This paper presents a wireless high throughput data transmission system dedicated to interface implantable multi-channel neural recording devices. Its main component is a low-end wireless IEEE 802.11g compliant LAN router, which makes it very cost effective and reliable. The presented design is portable/wearable and, therefore, well suited for high data rate medical systems applications. Furthermore, it requires a very short development time, and presents a flexible user I/O interface. The router runs OpenWrt, a free Open Source Linux distribution for wireless routers. The proposed architecture has been prototyped with an Asus wireless router and achieves more than 6.1 Mbps of sustained throughput over the transmission control protocol (TCP).

Keywords

Linux; bioelectric phenomena; biomedical telemetry; medical computing; neurophysiology; radiotelemetry; routing protocols; transport protocols; wireless LAN; Asus wireless router; LAN router; OpenWrt; TCP; data transmission system; flexible user I/O interface; free Open Source Linux distribution; high data rate telemetry system; interface implantable multichannel neural recording devices; low-end wireless IEEE 802.11g; multichannel biosignal recording; transmission control protocol; Bluetooth; Computer interfaces; Prototypes; Sensor systems; Telemetry; Throughput; Transport protocols; Wearable computers; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, 2006. BioCAS 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0436-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0437-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIOCAS.2006.4600335

Filename

4600335