Low-Power Platform and Communications for the Development of Wireless Body Sensor Networks
Although the roles of body sensor networks (BSNs) are similar to those carried out by the generic wireless sensor networks (WSNs), new solutions must be established to optimize communications for true pervasive biomedical monitoring transparent to the user. In this paper, a proposal of a hardware an...
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| author | David Naranjo-Hernández Laura M. Roa Javier Reina-Tosina Miguel A. Estudillo-Valderrama Gerardo Barbarov |
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| description | Although the roles of body sensor networks (BSNs) are similar to those carried out by the generic wireless sensor networks (WSNs), new solutions must be established to optimize communications for true pervasive biomedical monitoring transparent to the user. In this paper, a proposal of a hardware and software platform for biomedical sensors is performed, which is specially designed to minimize energy consumption in BSNs through a modular processing scheme based on the detection of events and information abstraction. The data flow is implemented through a novel communications protocol that enhances the performances of consumption and time delay of the platform. A novel aspect of the protocol is the explicit incorporation of an additional level of communications to support the distributed processing architecture that allows the execution of multiple applications in parallel within the smart sensors. The results obtained with an implementation of a smart sensor for fall detection demonstrate its feasibility as well as the viability of the communication protocol for the development of energy-efficient BSNs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-069dcfd18dd14068a8138bec2ee33c9c2024-10-03T05:48:17ZengHindawi - SAGE PublishingInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks1550-14772015-07-011110.1155/2015/431798431798Low-Power Platform and Communications for the Development of Wireless Body Sensor NetworksDavid Naranjo-Hernández0Laura M. Roa1Javier Reina-Tosina2Miguel A. Estudillo-Valderrama3Gerardo Barbarov4 Biomedical Research Networking Center in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Monforte de Lemos 3-5, Pavilion 11, 28029 Madrid, Spain Biomedical Research Networking Center in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Monforte de Lemos 3-5, Pavilion 11, 28029 Madrid, Spain Department of Signal Theory and Communications, University of Seville, Higher Technical School of Engineering, Camino de los Descubrimientos, s/n, 41092 Seville, Spain Biomedical Research Networking Center in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Monforte de Lemos 3-5, Pavilion 11, 28029 Madrid, Spain Biomedical Research Networking Center in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Monforte de Lemos 3-5, Pavilion 11, 28029 Madrid, SpainAlthough the roles of body sensor networks (BSNs) are similar to those carried out by the generic wireless sensor networks (WSNs), new solutions must be established to optimize communications for true pervasive biomedical monitoring transparent to the user. In this paper, a proposal of a hardware and software platform for biomedical sensors is performed, which is specially designed to minimize energy consumption in BSNs through a modular processing scheme based on the detection of events and information abstraction. The data flow is implemented through a novel communications protocol that enhances the performances of consumption and time delay of the platform. A novel aspect of the protocol is the explicit incorporation of an additional level of communications to support the distributed processing architecture that allows the execution of multiple applications in parallel within the smart sensors. The results obtained with an implementation of a smart sensor for fall detection demonstrate its feasibility as well as the viability of the communication protocol for the development of energy-efficient BSNs.https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/431798 |
| spellingShingle | David Naranjo-Hernández Laura M. Roa Javier Reina-Tosina Miguel A. Estudillo-Valderrama Gerardo Barbarov Low-Power Platform and Communications for the Development of Wireless Body Sensor Networks International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks |
| title | Low-Power Platform and Communications for the Development of Wireless Body Sensor Networks |
| title_full | Low-Power Platform and Communications for the Development of Wireless Body Sensor Networks |
| title_fullStr | Low-Power Platform and Communications for the Development of Wireless Body Sensor Networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Low-Power Platform and Communications for the Development of Wireless Body Sensor Networks |
| title_short | Low-Power Platform and Communications for the Development of Wireless Body Sensor Networks |
| title_sort | low power platform and communications for the development of wireless body sensor networks |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/431798 |
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