Title :
Optimized, practical firmware design for a novel flexible wireless multi-sensor platform for body activity and vitals monitoring
Author :
Jaggernauth, Camille ; Chuo, Yindar ; Hung, Benny ; Lin, Philip ; Kaminska, Bozena
Author_Institution :
Center for Integrative Bioeng. Res. (CiBER), Simon Fraser Univ. (SFU), Burnaby, AB, Canada
Abstract :
This paper proposes optimized and practical firmware development for a novel, wireless, multi-sensor, system for body activity and vitals monitoring, which improves user comfort and enables use on active mobile subjects with improved battery life.
Keywords :
body sensor networks; firmware; medical computing; patient monitoring; sensor fusion; battery life; body activity monitoring; firmware design; flexible wireless multisensor platform; vitals monitoring; Bridge circuits; Electrocardiography; Hardware; Heart rate; Microprogramming; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Pervasive healthcare; cooperating embedded systems with wireless sensor networks; firmware driver; wearable electronics;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8711-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICCE.2011.5722733
