Title :
A wearable and flexible Bracelet computer for on-body sensing
Author :
Cheng, Lawrence ; Shum, Venus ; Kuntze, Gregor ; Mcphillips, Graeme ; Wilson, Alan ; Hailes, Stephen ; Kerwin, David ; Kerwin, G.
Author_Institution :
Struct. & Motion Lab., Veterinary Coll., Hatfield, UK
Abstract :
Small-size, light-weight, flexible and programmable, yet low-cost sensor node is one of the keys to enable Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) research and a wide range of user applications. In this paper, the Bracelet computer is presented. The system is designed to be flexible and wearable that it supports a range of daughter boards of user´s choice, and provides different ways for the boards to be connected to the main processor board. Despite a range of features, the monetary cost of the system is kept low. An application of the system - which uses the same wireless board as the Bracelet computer for localising a running athlete - is presented in this paper to demonstrate the applicability of the system. The localisation results show that the system achieves an average positional error of 28.945cm.
Keywords :
analogue-digital conversion; biomedical electronics; biomedical equipment; body area networks; body sensor networks; flexible electronics; medical computing; patient monitoring; prosthetics; system-on-chip; wearable computers; Analog-to-Digital Converter; flexible bracelet computer; programmable sensor node; system-in-a-chip module; wearable computer; wireless processor board; wireless sensor network; Ad hoc networks; Calibration; Computers; Distance measurement; Monitoring; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Application; bracelet; localisation; on-body sensing; wearable sensor node;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8789-9
DOI :
10.1109/CCNC.2011.5766629
