DC powerline communication network for a wearable health monitoring system

Wade, Eric; Asada, H. Harry

doi:10.1109/isplc.2005.1430490

Cited by 10 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 6 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Conductive yarns can be produced in various ways and can obtain very different properties in terms of conductivity, touch, strength, elasticity etc. [4] While conductive fabrics and fibres have been studied for different applications, there is no comprehensive resource that details their electrical behaviour [5].…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improvements of Smart Garment Electronic Contact System

Parkova

Vališevskis

Ziemele

et al. 2012

Advances in Science and Technology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In order to improve comfort of smart garment, rigid electronic boards can be replaced with textile circuits, which use conductive yarns. When one tries to improve wearing comfort, often the most problematic items turn to be connection points of the electronic circuitry. The aim of this research is to determine behaviour of conductive yarns after they have been sewn into textile material, as well as to determine their suitability for the intended applications. In order to determine the quality of a conductive connective seams resistance has been measured (in Ω) under the influence of various variable factors: type of yarn, length of stitch, number of layers, type of seam. Besides that seam durability tests were carried, which show resistance changes over time and after washing.

show abstract

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improvements of Smart Garment Electronic Contact System

Parkova

Vališevskis

Ziemele

et al. 2012

Advances in Science and Technology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The sensors send their data via PLC technique to the observation ward on the same cable that supplies them with electricity [15].…”

Section: Powerline Communication (Plc)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Industrial powerline communication for machine tools and robotics

Verl

Schmitz

Yang

et al. 2010

Prod. Eng. Res. Devel.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Nowadays, machining systems worldwide are on a very high level, regarding mechanics as well as control technology. Therefore, in the case of challenging sub-assemblies like drive and control systems and technological components (e.g. high-frequency spindles and processing heads) the emphasis should be placed on the integration of these components in specialised machine and plant configurations, especially by reducing the interfaces with a new communication system. In the future, technological innovations can be primarily expected from the introduction of highly integrated mechatronic machine modules. The concept of this new powerline communication system is the transmission of data and power for a drive unit over a common power cable. This can be achieved by high-frequency modulation of the data onto the cable. In this paper, the basic conditions for the industrial powerline communication are presented. First an overview is given on the existing communication systems in production technology. As an essential requirement the transfer function of the transmission channel is analysed. Further, the disturbances on the transmission channel are discussed. The final essential requirement is the compliance with the standards regarding elimination of disturbances, conducted as well as radiated. For proof of functionality the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex-(OFDM-) transmission method is applied. This is implemented in two modems which have been set up within a demonstration system.

show abstract

“…They can be DC or AC powerline systems. The first ones transmit data over low DC voltages, typically 12-24 V. They are exploited for smart-home scenarios in a few domotic-bus (such as KNX-EIB® and the Italian BTicino®) and in smartsystems with a lot of sensors, (such as wearable network for health monitoring [3]) where is necessary to send data or to read the status without incrementing the number of cables [4]. AC powerline systems, instead, are applied over AC voltages both in closed environments (houses [5] but also hospitals, airports and so on [6]) and in the big distribution power networks, over very long distances and with big amount of power in play.…”

Section: Powerline Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%