WBAN Implementation on Magnetic Induction Radio IC for Medical Remote Monitoring

The medical service environment is changing. There is a need for automatization of collecting medical data remotely from the patient. Telecare is the continuous remote monitoring of the health of the patient. The IM3 (interactive mobile medical monitoring) project focuses on developing and implementing such end-to-end service. We implemented the WBAN (wireless body area network) protocol on the magnetic induction radio IC (integrated circuit), which is designed by NXP Semiconductors. We show in this paper that we have a working setup, where nodes form autonomously the network and send ECG data to the sink.