WBAN Implementation on Magnetic Induction Radio IC for Medical Remote Monitoring

Author

Torfs, Wim ; De Cleyn, Peter ; Blondia, Chris

Author_Institution

IBBT, Univ. of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

fYear

2009

fDate

14-18 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The medical service environment is changing. There is a need for automatization of collecting medical data remotely from the patient. Telecare is the continuous remote monitoring of the health of the patient. The IM3 (interactive mobile medical monitoring) project focuses on developing and implementing such end-to-end service. We implemented the WBAN (wireless body area network) protocol on the magnetic induction radio IC (integrated circuit), which is designed by NXP Semiconductors. We show in this paper that we have a working setup, where nodes form autonomously the network and send ECG data to the sink.

Keywords

biomedical electronics; biomedical telemetry; body area networks; electrocardiography; electromagnetic induction; patient monitoring; ECG data; NXP Semiconductors; WBAN protocol; interactive mobile medical monitoring; magnetic induction radio IC; medical remote monitoring; medical service environment; patient health monitoring; telecare; wireless body area network; Biomedical monitoring; Body sensor networks; Digital integrated circuits; Electrocardiography; Magnetic cores; Magnetic sensors; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Protocols; Remote monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications Workshops, 2009. ICC Workshops 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dresden

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3437-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208091

Filename

5208091