High speed intra-body communication for personal health care

Author

Zhu, Hongjie ; Xu, Ruoyu ; Yuan, Jie

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon, China

fYear

2009

fDate

3-6 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

709

Lastpage

712

Abstract

Intra-body communication (IBC) uses the conductive human body as the communication channel for data exchange. As the bio-sensor research is moving towards portable, wearable and implantable designs, IBC has significant potential applications for personal health care. Previous IBC research mainly focused on the electromagnetic (EM) IBC scheme, which resulted in low data rate (kbps). In this paper, we systematically studied the electric field (EF) IBC scheme, which enables 10 Mbps data rate. The human body channel is thoroughly measured with attenuation, noise and distortion for the IBC application. High speed EF IBC links are tested with various modulation schemes. The minimum transmission power of different links is measured.

Keywords

biomedical telemetry; biosensors; body area networks; electronic data interchange; health care; high-speed techniques; biosensor research; bit rate 10 Mbit/s; communication channel; conductive human body; data exchange; electromagnetic IBC scheme; high speed intra-body communication; human body channel; implantable biomedical sensor; low data rate communication; personal health care; portable sensor; wearable sensor; Biosensing Techniques; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Humans; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Self Care; Telemedicine; Telemetry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3296-7

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332685

Filename

5332685