Low-cost low-power small-form-factor node for health monitoring wireless multi-hop Personal Area Networks with Dramatically Increased Range

Author

Lakafosis, V. ; Chaisilwattana, N. ; Kruesi, C. ; Yang, L. ; Staiculescu, D. ; Tentzeris, M.M.

Author_Institution

Georgia Electron. Design Center, Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

1-5 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The individual components comprising a low-cost, low-power, small-form-factor wireless sensor node for simultaneous ECG and temperature monitoring over wireless personal area networks of dramatically increased range, have been successfully designed, tested and presented. A circular patch antenna has been created that can be integrated, the substrate material of which has been chosen in order to optimize size and reduce radiation lost from interactions with the body. In the future, our work will focus on adding extra reliability measures related to data traffic issues, introducing security layers in the WPAN and optimizing the design of the patch antenna for further miniaturization.

Keywords

biomedical telemetry; electrocardiography; microstrip antennas; patient monitoring; personal area networks; wireless sensor networks; ECG; WPAN; circular patch antenna; data traffic; electrocardiography; health monitoring wireless multihop personal area networks; low-cost low-power small-form-factor node; small-form-factor wireless sensor node; temperature monitoring; Electrocardiography; Monitoring; Patch antennas; Personal area networks; Spread spectrum communication; Temperature distribution; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Wireless personal area networks; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2009. APSURSI '09. IEEE

Conference_Location

Charleston, SC

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3647-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2009.5171658

Filename

5171658