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

fYear

2005

fDate

38457

Firstpage

398

Lastpage

403

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2005. IPSN 2005. Fourth International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9201-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPSN.2005.1440956

Filename

1440956