Authors:
Finn Overgaard Hansen
and
Thomas Skjødeberg Toftegaard
Affiliation:
Aarhus University, Denmark
Keyword(s):
Pervasive Healthcare, Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN), Sensor Networks, Healthcare System Architecture, Body Gateway, Body Area Network (BAN) Requirements.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Biomedical Signal Processing
;
Devices
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Mobile Technologies
;
Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications
;
Neural Rehabilitation
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Physiological Computing Systems
;
Software Engineering
;
Wearable Sensors and Systems
Abstract:
Wireless body area networks enable new opportunities for personal healthcare monitoring and personal healthcare applications. This paper presents a comprehensive set of requirements and challenges for building a wireless body area network to support diverse user groups and a corresponding set of healthcare applications. Based on the identified requirements, the paper presents an architecture for a wireless body area network and describes how this architecture is connected to an existing it-infrastructure supporting healthcare at home. Finally the paper presents our on-going research with development of an ASE-BAN test bed. The major goal for this test bed is to be a platform for research and experiments with development of an ultra-low power body area network including sensor, communication nodes, communication protocols and a body gateway component.