Eco: ultra-wearable and expandable wireless sensor platform

Author

Park, Chulsung ; Chou, Pai H.

Author_Institution

Center for Embedded Comput. Syst., California Univ., Irvine, CA

fYear

2006

fDate

3-5 April 2006

Lastpage

165

Abstract

Eco is a self-contained, ultra-wearable and expandable wireless sensor platform under 1cm³. Previous platforms make trade-offs between size or expandability. Eco achieves both with a novel flex-PCB expansion connector for digital/analog I/O, firmware programming, and battery charging. It can be folded up without obstruction or clipped off if expandability is no longer needed. Only 15% the volume of MICA2D0T, Eco has the same size as the nonexpandable muPart node but with several times more memory, processing and communication speeds. A separate data aggregator and a development/base-station board enable Eco nodes to form a high-performance body sensor network for pre-term infant monitoring and interactive dance

Keywords

biomedical electronics; biomedical equipment; computerised instrumentation; digital instrumentation; patient monitoring; wearable computers; wireless sensor networks; Eco wireless sensor platform; MICA2D0T; battery charging; body sensor network; data aggregator; expandable wireless sensor platform; firmware programming; flex-PCB expansion connector; interactive dance; pre-term infant monitoring; ultra-wearable wireless sensor platform; Assembly; Battery charge measurement; Biomedical monitoring; Body area networks; Body sensor networks; Connectors; Microprogramming; Pins; Sensor systems; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, 2006. BSN 2006. International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2547-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BSN.2006.21

Filename

1612921