Title :
Eco: an ultra-compact low-power wireless sensor node for real-time motion monitoring
Author :
Park, Chulsung ; Liu, Jinfeng ; Chou, Pai H.
Author_Institution :
Center for Embedded Comput. Syst., California Univ., Irvine, CA, USA
Abstract :
Eco is an ultra-compact wireless sensor node. Only 648 mm3 in volume and weighing under 1.6 grams, Eco was initially designed to monitor the spontaneous motion of preterm infants over 2.4 GHz radio links at the maximum data rate of 1 Mbps. The compact form factor and low power consumption also make Eco nodes highly suitable for many other applications, including medicine, environmental monitoring, new computer-human interface, and ambient intelligence. This paper describes the hardware and software designs of the second generation Eco nodes and the host interface. We also present an evaluation and comparison against other popular sensor nodes in the similar class.
Keywords :
computer network management; environmental management; hardware-software codesign; medicine; radio links; real-time systems; user interfaces; wireless sensor networks; Eco; ambient intelligence; computer-human interface; environmental monitoring; hardware-software design; medicine; power consumption; radio link; real-time motion monitoring; ultra-compact wireless sensor node; Ambient intelligence; Application software; Computer interfaces; Computerized monitoring; Energy consumption; Hardware; Pediatrics; Pervasive computing; Radio link; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2005. IPSN 2005. Fourth International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9201-9
DOI :
10.1109/IPSN.2005.1440956
