Personal Gateway design for portable medical devices used in body area networks

Author

Wang, Chun-Chin ; Yang, Cheng-Yen ; Huang, Chi-Chun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan

fYear

2010

fDate

9-13 Jan. 2010

Firstpage

189

Lastpage

190

Abstract

This paper presents a low power personal gateway (PG) device to wirelessly reply biomedical data between sensors and a databank server. Physiological signals acquitted by the sensors including ECG signals, and bladder pressure data, are converted and packed following IEEE 802.15.4 protocol, which are designed for LR-WPAN (low-rate wireless personal area network). Most important of all, CSMA/CA (carrier sense multiple access/collision avoidance) is fully implemented in the proposed device to ensure the security and privacy of patients´ personal biomedical information.

Keywords

biomedical communication; body area networks; carrier sense multiple access; electrocardiography; internetworking; network servers; personal area networks; CSMA-CA; ECG signals; IEEE 802.15.4 protocol; bladder pressure data; body area networks; carrier sense multiple access-collision avoidance; low-rate wireless personal area network; personal biomedical information; personal gateway design; physiological signals; portable medical devices; Access protocols; Bioinformatics; Biosensors; Bladder; Body area networks; Electrocardiography; Network servers; Signal design; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks; CSMA/CA; ECG; LR-WPAN; Personal Gateway; physiological signals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2010 Digest of Technical Papers International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4314-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4316-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE.2010.5418855

Filename

5418855