Human bio-kinematic monitoring with body area networks Chapter uri icon

abstract

  • Body Area Networks (BANs), known as enabling technology for many biomedical applications, are composed of body-worn sensor devices that can provide mobile and continuous monitoring of the human body. This chapter presents an overview of platform design strategies for BANs with applications in physical movement monitoring. First, an introduction to several compelling applications is given, which shows BAN versatility in both medical and recreational fields. Applications are important in the sense that they help in understanding design requirements of the BAN platform. An architecture of the system, including hardware and software components, is then described. It is followed by a description of typical signal processing for movement monitoring applications. While this type of signal processing flow can be generally used in movement monitoring applications, in order to take the most advantage of the system, the signal processing needs to be custom tailored for each individual application. An example of this process is shown based on the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) movement annotation applications. Finally, the chapter is concluded with discussion of possible BAN system optimizations. In particular, it is shown that the energy consumption of the systemcan be reduced by using buffers to decrease the number of transmissions. 2012 Pan Stanford Publishing Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved.

author list (cited authors)

  • Jafari, R., Ghasemzadeh, H., Guenterberg, E., Loseu, V., & Ostadabas, S.

complete list of authors

  • Jafari, R||Ghasemzadeh, H||Guenterberg, E||Loseu, V||Ostadabas, S

Book Title

  • Wireless Body Area Networks: Technology, Implementation and Applications

publication date

  • August 2011