A Modular Platform for Wireless Body Area Network Research and Real-life Experiments

Jacobsen, Rune Hylsberg; Hansen, Finn Overgaard; Madsen, Jens Kargaard; Karstoft, Henrik; Mikkelsen, Peter Høgh; Skogberg, Tore Arne; Rasmussen, Esben Sune; Andersen, Claus; Alrøe, Michael; Toftegaard, Thomas Skjødeberg

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A Modular Platform for Wireless Body Area Network Research and Real-life Experiments

Authors:
Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen
Finn Overgaard Hansen
Jens Kargaard Madsen
Henrik Karstoft
Peter Høgh Mikkelsen
Tore Arne Skogberg
Esben Sune Rasmussen
Claus Andersen
Michael Alrøe
Thomas Skjødeberg Toftegaard

Keywords: low power; wireless sensor network; WBAN; Body area network; BAN; healthcare; Body gateway; testbed; IEEE 802.15.4; 6LoWPAN

Abstract:
The paper presents ASE-BAN, a wireless Body Area Network (BAN) developed at Aarhus University School of Engineering (ASE). ASE-BAN is a modular platform enabling research in the healthcare area and allowing real-life experiments with real users. The paper presents requirements, architecture and implementation of a hardware platform consisting of different modules, the current progress of research with development of sensor nodes for this ASE-BAN and the corresponding software. The concept of a body gateway is presented alongside with the preliminary results obtained with our current wireless BAN prototype.

Pages: 257 to 277

Publication date: April 30, 2012

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2644