Wireless body area network and its healthcare applications

Author

Hoi-Jun Yoo

Author_Institution

Dept. of EE, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea

fYear

2013

fDate

5-8 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

89

Lastpage

91

Abstract

With a paradigm shift in advent of u-healthcare era, the wireless body area network (WBAN) has been recently emerged. In this paper, we overview the WBAN technology and summary its three types of physical layers (PHYs). Among three PHYs, we introduce the human body communication (HBC) which uses the human body as a communication channel to transmit the electric signal. Through the clear understanding of the body channel with T-shaped body channel model and theoretical channel analysis, we present 6 HBC transceiver implemented with CMOS technology, including a world-first WBAN transceiver satisfying all of the specifications for IEEE 802.15.6 standard. Through the implemented transceiver, we successfully demonstrate the MP3 player, and smart patch system for entertainment, and healthcare application, respectively.

Keywords

body area networks; health care; personal area networks; radio transceivers; telemedicine; wireless channels; CMOS technology; HBC transceiver; IEEE 802.15.6 standard; T-shaped body channel model; WBAN technology; communication channel; electric signal; entertainment; healthcare applications; human body communication; paradigm shift; physical layers; smart patch system; theoretical channel analysis; u-healthcare era; wireless body area network; world-first WBAN transceiver; Biological system modeling; Body area networks; Medical services; Niobium; Solid state circuits; Transceivers; Wireless communication; human body communication; wireless body area network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC), 2013 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Seoul

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2013.6695200

Filename

6695200