Wireless Communication Technologies for Wearable Systems

Warren, Steve; Natarajan, Balasubramaniam

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“…The central device, which coordinates and manages the operation of the network, sends data through an external long-distance link to a medical decision center for evaluation. This link is usually implemented with Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) standards, which support larger amounts of data [3]. This way, this central device acting as an external gateway supports the higher transmission power in the network, thus minimizing the power consumption of the rest of the sensors and actuators [4].…”

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Past Results, Present Trends, and Future Challenges in Intrabody Communication

Naranjo-Hernández

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Vasić

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Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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Intrabody communication (IBC) is a wireless communication technology using the human body to develop body area networks (BANs) for remote and ubiquitous monitoring. IBC uses living tissues as a transmission medium, achieving power-saving and miniaturized transceivers, making communications more robust against external interference and attacks on the privacy of transmitted data. Due to these advantages, IBC has been included as a third physical layer in the IEEE 802.15.6 standard for wireless body area networks (WBANs) designated as Human Body Communication (HBC). Further research is needed to compare both methods depending on the characteristics of IBC application. Challenges remain for an optimal deployment of IBC technology, such as the effect of long-term use in the human body, communication optimization through more realistic models, the influence of both anthropometric characteristics and the subject's movement on the transmission performance, standardization of communications, and development of small-size and energy-efficient prototypes with increased data rate. The purpose of this work is to provide an indepth overview of recent advances and future challenges in human body/intrabody communication for wireless communications and mobile computing.

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Past Results, Present Trends, and Future Challenges in Intrabody Communication

Naranjo-Hernández

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Vasić

et al. 2018

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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“…Most of the wearables available today deploy short-range wireless communication technologies such as BLE [148], Zigbee [149], Wi-Fi [150] despite others. However, the choice of communication technology highly depends on the nature of the application, e.g., if the targeted application requires a high data rate, then Wi-Fi is an optimal choice.…”

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Towards Energy Efficiency in the Internet of Wearable Things: A Systematic Review

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Personal mobile devices such as smartwatches, smart jewelry, and smart clothes have launched a new trend in the Internet of Things (IoT) era, namely the Internet of Wearable Things (IoWT). These wearables are small IoT devices capable of sensing, storing, processing, and exchanging data to assist users by improving their everyday life tasks through various applications. However, the IoWT has also brought new challenges for the research community to address such as increasing demand for enhanced computational power, better communication capabilities, improved security and privacy features, reduced form factor, minimal weight, and better comfort. Most wearables are battery-powered devices that need to be recharged-therefore, the limited battery life remains the bottleneck leading to the need to enhance the energy efficiency of wearables, thus, becoming an active research area. This paper presents a survey of energy-efficient solutions proposed for diverse IoWT applications by following the systematic literature review method. The available techniques published from 2010 to 2020 are scrutinized, and the taxonomy of the available solutions is presented based on the targeted application area. Moreover, a comprehensive qualitative analysis compares the proposed studies in each application area in terms of their advantages, disadvantages, and main contributions. Furthermore, a list of the most significant performance parameters is provided. A more in-depth discussion of the main techniques to enhance wearables' energy efficiency is presented by highlighting the trade-offs involved. Finally, some potential future research directions are highlighted.

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“…Wearable and everyday-carry devices that integrate with healthcare information networks promise to increase the quality of care rendered to individuals that desire mobility yet require frequent or continuous health monitoring [1][2][3][4]. The maturation of interoperability standards such as IEEE 11073 -Personal Health Data (11073 PHD) [5], coupled with the proliferation of wireless communication standards, plug-and-play wired technologies, small medical sensors, and low-power computation and visualization tools (that are in large part driven by the smart phone industry), offers promise for the creation of small, effective portable medical devices that can be customized to meet the needs of the individual user.…”

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GumPack: A Personal Health Assistant with Reconfigurable Surface Components

Warren

2013

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

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Wearable and everyday-carry medical devices can improve quality of life for individuals that need frequent health monitoring. Such tools can supplement ubiquitous home care environments populated with medical sensors, extending the reach of these environments and increasing the freedom of their occupants. This paper presents the concept design for an everyday-carry medical device called a 'GumPack': a small cuboid-shaped device that offers wireless connectivity and plug-and-play surface components, where a component can be a biomedical sensor or a wireless network coordinator that manages a body area network. This geometrical layout optimizes access to surface-based medical hardware mounted on a small form factor. The device offers substantive computing power, supports local component reconfigurability, and promotes interoperability with medical device coordination environments. The GumPack is envisioned to be a personal health assistant carried in a pocket or handbag that can operate alone or interface to, e.g., a cell phone.

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Wireless Communication Technologies for Wearable Systems

Cited by 5 publications

References 159 publications

Past Results, Present Trends, and Future Challenges in Intrabody Communication

Past Results, Present Trends, and Future Challenges in Intrabody Communication

Towards Energy Efficiency in the Internet of Wearable Things: A Systematic Review

GumPack: A Personal Health Assistant with Reconfigurable Surface Components

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