Title :
Bio-feedback system for rehabilitation based on a wireless body area network
Author :
Brunelli, Davide ; Farella, Elisabetta ; Rocchi, Laura ; Dozza, Marco ; Chiari, Lorenzo ; Benini, Luca
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron., Comput. Sci., Syst., DEIS, Bologna
Abstract :
In this paper we describe bio-WWS, a bio-feedback system for rehabilitation based on dedicated, wireless, sensor-network architecture. The sensor network is designed to be distributed on the user´s body for balance monitoring and correction. The hardware and software architecture (communication protocols, power management policies and application-level control) have been tuned to optimize cost, battery autonomy and real-time performance required for this application. Bio-WWS is an example of complete vertical integration: the sensor network is fully integrated with processing and auditory feedback generation
Keywords :
biomedical communication; distributed processing; feedback; medical signal processing; patient monitoring; patient rehabilitation; wireless sensor networks; application-level control; auditory feedback generation; biofeedback system; communication protocols; hardware architecture; power management policy; rehabilitation; sensor-network architecture; software architecture; vertical integration; wireless body area network; Battery management systems; Biosensors; Body sensor networks; Computer architecture; Energy management; Hardware; Monitoring; Protocols; Software architecture; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, 2006. PerCom Workshops 2006. Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pisa
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2520-2
DOI :
10.1109/PERCOMW.2006.27
