Designing Next-generation Implantable Wireless Telemetry

Abstract

Biomedical applications in general, and health monitoring in particular, extensively involve on-body as well as implantable wireless communications devices to enable viable end-user solutions. While technologies to wirelessly transmit data from implanted devices have already been reported, they fall short of being able to support the needs of emerging next-generation biomedical applications. In order to translate state-of-theart wireless technologies into solutions fitting body area network applications (BANs), a key challenge to overcome is the strictly limited power budget. This paper attempts to review design challenges and proposes a viable solution for wireless telemetry to meet the targets for next-generation BANs.