Human-area networking technology based on near-field coupling transceiver

Author

Kado, Yuichi ; Kobase, Taku ; Yanagawa, Tomoaki ; Kusunoki, Tatsuya ; Takahashi, Masashi ; Nagai, Ryouji ; Hiromitsu, Ozaki ; Hataya, Atsushi ; Simasaki, Hitoshi ; Shinagawa, Mitsuru

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Kyoto Inst. of Technol., Kyoto, Japan

fYear

2012

Firstpage

119

Lastpage

122

Abstract

We discuss a novel communication technology that uses the human body as a communication path. The conventional body-channel communication systems are composed of only transceivers (TRX) on the human body. Our proposed system is composed of not only transceivers on the body (wearable TRX) but also transceivers embedded in floors, PCs, equipments, etc (embedded TRX). Therefore, our system broadens the fields of application. To estimate the transmission quality of our system, we measured the packet error rates (PER) between a wearable TRX and an embedded TRX. The PER during downlink was better than that during uplink. We describe a method for improving the PER during uplink with a common mode filter and show the PER characteristics.

Keywords

body area networks; radio transceivers; PER; TRX; body-channel communication systems; human-area networking technology; near-field coupling transceiver; packet error rates; transmission quality; wireless body area networks; Downlink; Electrodes; Noise; Noise measurement; Phantoms; Power measurement; Transceivers; body area network; human area network; near field coupling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Santa Clara, CA

ISSN

2164-2958

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1153-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RWS.2012.6175318

Filename

6175318