Title :
Wearable sensor system for wireless state-of-health determination in cattle
Author :
Nagl, L. ; Schmitz, R. ; Warren, S. ; Hildreth, T.S. ; Erickson, H. ; Andresen, D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, USA
Abstract :
Wearable systems for human and animal state-of-health determination share many design requirements. This paper discusses the design of a remote health monitoring system for cattle that hosts a suite of sensors and communicates wirelessly with a base station via Bluetooth telemetry.
Keywords :
Bluetooth; biology computing; biosensors; computerised monitoring; microcontrollers; wireless LAN; zoology; Bluetooth telemetry; animal health; cattle; component design; health determination; health monitoring system; microcontroller; wearable sensor system; wireless communication; Animals; Base stations; Biomedical monitoring; Bluetooth; Cows; Humans; Remote monitoring; Sensor systems; Wearable sensors; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7789-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1280774
