A versatile Body Sensor Network for health care applications

Author

Kim, Saim ; Beckmann, Lisa ; Pistor, Moritz ; Cousin, Linda ; Walter, Marian ; Leonhardt, Steffen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Med. Inf. Technol., RWTH Aachen Univ., Aachen, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

7-10 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

175

Lastpage

180

Abstract

This paper presents the development of a Body Sensor Network, called the meditBSN, for health monitoring applications. It is designed around a MSP430F1611 microcontroller and a CC1101 433 MHz ISM band transceiver IC. A Bioimpedance Spectroscopy measurement condition monitoring application has been developed using the meditBSN. It incorporates three 3-D accelerometers and a skin temperature probe. Additionally, a PDA software was developed to control BIS measurements as well as to analyze and save the data from the meditBSN.

Keywords

accelerometers; bioelectric phenomena; biomechanics; biomedical telemetry; biothermics; body sensor networks; health care; medical computing; microcontrollers; patient monitoring; skin; temperature measurement; transceivers; 3D accelerometers; BIS measurement control; CC1101 ISM band transceiver IC; MSP430F1611 microcontroller; PDA software; bioimpedance spectroscopy measurement; body sensor network; health care applications; health monitoring applications; integrated cuircuit; meditBSN; skin temperature probe; Accelerometers; Application software; Application specific integrated circuits; Bioimpedance; Body sensor networks; Condition monitoring; Medical services; Microcontrollers; Spectroscopy; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), 2009 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3517-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3518-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSNIP.2009.5416800

Filename

5416800