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

fYear

2006

fDate

13-17 March 2006

Lastpage

531

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PERCOMW.2006.27

Filename

1599040