Plug ´n Play Simplicity for Wireless Medical Body Sensors

Author

Falck, Thomas ; Baldus, Heribert ; Espina, Javier ; Klabunde, Karin

Author_Institution

Philips Res. Eur., Aachen

fYear

2006

fDate

Nov. 29 2006-Dec. 1 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Wireless medical body sensors are a key technology for unobtrusive health monitoring. The easy setup of such wireless body area networks is crucial to protect the user from the complexity of these systems. But automatically forming a wireless network comprising all sensors attached to the same body is challenging. We present a method for making wireless body-worn medical sensors aware of the persons they belong to by combining body-coupled with wireless communication. This enables a user to create a wireless body sensor network by just sticking the sensors to her body. A personal identifier allows sensors to annotate their readings with a user ID thereby ensuring safety in personal healthcare environments with multiple users

Keywords

biosensors; health care; patient monitoring; wireless sensor networks; personal healthcare environments; personal identifier; plug and play simplicity; unobtrusive health monitoring; wireless body-worn medical sensors; wireless network; Biomedical monitoring; Body sensor networks; Computerized monitoring; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Plugs; Radio frequency; Remote monitoring; Wireless personal area networks; Wireless sensor networks; body-coupled communication; network set-up; wireless body area network; wireless patient monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Health Conference and Workshops, 2006

Conference_Location

Innsbruck

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1085-1

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1086-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361702

Filename

4205193