Continuous monitoring and analyzing of vital signs is the key for detecting at an early stage when a patient's state of health changes to the worse, thereby preventing emergency cases, which are harmful to the patient and costly for the healthcare system. The BASUMA project is concerned with developing an energy-efficient and robust system-on-chip platform for wireless body sensors networks that enable health monitoring of chronically ill patients in their own homes. Initial application areas of BASUMA are: improving the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients and enhancing the ambulatory chemo therapy of women suffering from breast cancer
{"title":"BASUMA - the sixth sense for chronically ill patients","authors":"T. Falck, J. Espina, J. Ebert, D. Dietterle","doi":"10.1109/BSN.2006.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.2006.12","url":null,"abstract":"Continuous monitoring and analyzing of vital signs is the key for detecting at an early stage when a patient's state of health changes to the worse, thereby preventing emergency cases, which are harmful to the patient and costly for the healthcare system. The BASUMA project is concerned with developing an energy-efficient and robust system-on-chip platform for wireless body sensors networks that enable health monitoring of chronically ill patients in their own homes. Initial application areas of BASUMA are: improving the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients and enhancing the ambulatory chemo therapy of women suffering from breast cancer","PeriodicalId":246227,"journal":{"name":"International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN'06)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126373890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We have fabricated the first example of totally flexible field effect device for chemical detection based on an organic field effect transistor (OFET) made by pentacene films grown on flexible plastic structures. The ion sensitivity is achieved by employing a thin Mylar foil as gate dielectric. A sensitivity of the device to the pH of the electrolyte solution has been observed. A similar structure can be used also for detecting mechanical deformations on flexible surfaces. Thanks to the flexibility of the substrate and the low cost of the employed technology, these devices open the way for the production of flexible chemical and strain gauge sensors that can be employed in a variety of innovative applications such as wearable electronics, e-textiles, new man-machine interfaces
{"title":"Organic semiconductor field effect transistors for unconventional applications: flexible sensors and wearable devices","authors":"I. Manunza, Alessandra Sulis, A. Bonfiglio","doi":"10.1109/BSN.2006.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.2006.42","url":null,"abstract":"We have fabricated the first example of totally flexible field effect device for chemical detection based on an organic field effect transistor (OFET) made by pentacene films grown on flexible plastic structures. The ion sensitivity is achieved by employing a thin Mylar foil as gate dielectric. A sensitivity of the device to the pH of the electrolyte solution has been observed. A similar structure can be used also for detecting mechanical deformations on flexible surfaces. Thanks to the flexibility of the substrate and the low cost of the employed technology, these devices open the way for the production of flexible chemical and strain gauge sensors that can be employed in a variety of innovative applications such as wearable electronics, e-textiles, new man-machine interfaces","PeriodicalId":246227,"journal":{"name":"International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN'06)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133912944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Borriello, Waylon Brunette, Jonathan Lester, Polly Powledge, Adam D. Rea
We have developed a collection of portable platforms to enable context-aware applications to help users with their personal fitness. Our approach has been to focus on established form-factors such as cellphones and wrist-watches for the user interfaces. A variety of sensors are used to infer aspects of the user's context and proactively gather and display information that is likely to be useful at that time. In this paper, we highlight some of our platforms, the roles they can play, some of the capabilities we have already implemented, and highlight some of the applications we are currently developing
{"title":"An ecosystem of platforms to support sensors for personal fitness","authors":"G. Borriello, Waylon Brunette, Jonathan Lester, Polly Powledge, Adam D. Rea","doi":"10.1109/BSN.2006.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.2006.8","url":null,"abstract":"We have developed a collection of portable platforms to enable context-aware applications to help users with their personal fitness. Our approach has been to focus on established form-factors such as cellphones and wrist-watches for the user interfaces. A variety of sensors are used to infer aspects of the user's context and proactively gather and display information that is likely to be useful at that time. In this paper, we highlight some of our platforms, the roles they can play, some of the capabilities we have already implemented, and highlight some of the applications we are currently developing","PeriodicalId":246227,"journal":{"name":"International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN'06)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133070056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Linti, H. Horter, Peter Osterreicher, H. Planck
Continuous monitoring of physiological parameters is very often necessary for the evaluation of health conditions, diagnostic reasons and the detection of life or health threatening events. For infants, especially, who cannot provide any feedback about discomfort or health complaints it is an important issue to collect objective data under everyday conditions. The demand of physicians for the development of monitoring and diagnostic systems which are easier to handle and less obtrusive than the commonly used medical systems was the motivation for the presented project. Another motivation was the concern frequently expressed by parents about the danger of apparently life threatening events (ALTE) or even the problems of sudden infants death syndrome (SIDS). The developed sensory baby vest includes fully integrated sensors for the parameters respiration, heart rate, temperature and humidity, to detect excessive sweating, for the continuous monitoring of infants under clinical and home conditions. It will allow the early detection of potential life threatening events calling for rescue as well as the recognition of the development or progression of diseases at an early stage. Health protection or even life-saving thus will be enabled in time. A variety of principles for the measurement of the parameters has been assessed for the integration into garments. Prototypes have been manufactured incorporating the chosen sensing principles with textile and textile-compatible technologies. Currently, the prototypes are clinically tested for durability, handling and signal quality
{"title":"Sensory baby vest for the monitoring of infants","authors":"C. Linti, H. Horter, Peter Osterreicher, H. Planck","doi":"10.1109/BSN.2006.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.2006.49","url":null,"abstract":"Continuous monitoring of physiological parameters is very often necessary for the evaluation of health conditions, diagnostic reasons and the detection of life or health threatening events. For infants, especially, who cannot provide any feedback about discomfort or health complaints it is an important issue to collect objective data under everyday conditions. The demand of physicians for the development of monitoring and diagnostic systems which are easier to handle and less obtrusive than the commonly used medical systems was the motivation for the presented project. Another motivation was the concern frequently expressed by parents about the danger of apparently life threatening events (ALTE) or even the problems of sudden infants death syndrome (SIDS). The developed sensory baby vest includes fully integrated sensors for the parameters respiration, heart rate, temperature and humidity, to detect excessive sweating, for the continuous monitoring of infants under clinical and home conditions. It will allow the early detection of potential life threatening events calling for rescue as well as the recognition of the development or progression of diseases at an early stage. Health protection or even life-saving thus will be enabled in time. A variety of principles for the measurement of the parameters has been assessed for the integration into garments. Prototypes have been manufactured incorporating the chosen sensing principles with textile and textile-compatible technologies. Currently, the prototypes are clinically tested for durability, handling and signal quality","PeriodicalId":246227,"journal":{"name":"International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN'06)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114149797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kristof Van Laerhoven, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Yanni G. Malliaris
This paper introduces an encapsulated sensor node that is devised to monitor and record motion patterns over long, quotidian periods of time with potential application in psychological studies. Its design fuses different sensing modalities to allow efficient capturing of tilt and acceleration stimuli, as well as embedded algorithms that abstract from the raw sensory data to indicative features. By combining tilt switches and accelerometers with customized processing techniques, it is argued that a power-efficient yet information-rich approach is reached for the observation and logging of human motion-based activity
{"title":"Long term activity monitoring with a wearable sensor node","authors":"Kristof Van Laerhoven, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Yanni G. Malliaris","doi":"10.1109/BSN.2006.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.2006.39","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces an encapsulated sensor node that is devised to monitor and record motion patterns over long, quotidian periods of time with potential application in psychological studies. Its design fuses different sensing modalities to allow efficient capturing of tilt and acceleration stimuli, as well as embedded algorithms that abstract from the raw sensory data to indicative features. By combining tilt switches and accelerometers with customized processing techniques, it is argued that a power-efficient yet information-rich approach is reached for the observation and logging of human motion-based activity","PeriodicalId":246227,"journal":{"name":"International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN'06)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125719546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O. Aziz, Benny P. L. Lo, Guang-Zhong Yang, R. King, A. Darzi
Patients recovering from abdominal surgery are at risk of complications due to reduced mobility as a result of post-operative pain. The ability to pervasively monitor the recovery of this group of patients and identify those at risk of developing complications is therefore clinically desirable, which may result in an early intervention to prevent adverse outcomes. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a pervasive network of body sensors developed for monitoring the recovery of post-operative patients both in the hospital and homecare settings
{"title":"Pervasive body sensor network: an approach to monitoring the post-operative surgical patient","authors":"O. Aziz, Benny P. L. Lo, Guang-Zhong Yang, R. King, A. Darzi","doi":"10.1109/BSN.2006.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.2006.43","url":null,"abstract":"Patients recovering from abdominal surgery are at risk of complications due to reduced mobility as a result of post-operative pain. The ability to pervasively monitor the recovery of this group of patients and identify those at risk of developing complications is therefore clinically desirable, which may result in an early intervention to prevent adverse outcomes. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a pervasive network of body sensors developed for monitoring the recovery of post-operative patients both in the hospital and homecare settings","PeriodicalId":246227,"journal":{"name":"International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN'06)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130001744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
System robustness against individual sensor failures is an important concern in multi-sensor networks. Unfortunately, the complexity of using the remaining sensors to interpolate missing sensor data grows exponentially due to the "curse of dimensionality". In this paper, we demonstrate that the influence model, our novel formulation for combining evidence from multiple interactive dynamic processes, can efficiently interpolate missing data and can achieve greater accuracy by modeling the structure of multi-sensor interaction
{"title":"Multi-sensor data fusion using the influence model","authors":"Wen Dong, A. Pentland","doi":"10.1109/BSN.2006.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.2006.41","url":null,"abstract":"System robustness against individual sensor failures is an important concern in multi-sensor networks. Unfortunately, the complexity of using the remaining sensors to interpolate missing sensor data grows exponentially due to the \"curse of dimensionality\". In this paper, we demonstrate that the influence model, our novel formulation for combining evidence from multiple interactive dynamic processes, can efficiently interpolate missing data and can achieve greater accuracy by modeling the structure of multi-sensor interaction","PeriodicalId":246227,"journal":{"name":"International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN'06)","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114795740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Alfred Mann Foundation is developing a network of up to 850 injectable devices that have stimulating, sensing and communication capabilities. Each of the devices is coordinated via radio signals a hundred times a second by an external small module. All the devices are powered by lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. The stimulating, sensing, and communication circuits are designed to be highly power efficient to maximize battery life. The stimulator can be programmed to deliver pulses in the range: 5 muA to 20 mA, 7 mus to 2000 mus, and frequencies up to 4000 Hz. Bursting, ramping, and other stimulation features are included. The voltage sensor covers the range 10 muV to 1.0 V with bandpass filtering and data analysis. The implant also contains sensors for pressure, temperature, DC magnetic field, and distances between implants
{"title":"Stimulating and sensing network inside the human body","authors":"J. Schulman","doi":"10.4304/jcm.2.3.73-78","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4304/jcm.2.3.73-78","url":null,"abstract":"The Alfred Mann Foundation is developing a network of up to 850 injectable devices that have stimulating, sensing and communication capabilities. Each of the devices is coordinated via radio signals a hundred times a second by an external small module. All the devices are powered by lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. The stimulating, sensing, and communication circuits are designed to be highly power efficient to maximize battery life. The stimulator can be programmed to deliver pulses in the range: 5 muA to 20 mA, 7 mus to 2000 mus, and frequencies up to 4000 Hz. Bursting, ramping, and other stimulation features are included. The voltage sensor covers the range 10 muV to 1.0 V with bandpass filtering and data analysis. The implant also contains sensors for pressure, temperature, DC magnetic field, and distances between implants","PeriodicalId":246227,"journal":{"name":"International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN'06)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129883762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
It is suggested using wearable medical devices and sensors as the nodes of body sensor networks (BSN) could allow better long-term monitoring of health condition. Nonetheless, the protocol and criteria for validating these nodes in clinical settings is often overlooked. By using the validation of blood pressure (BP) measurement devices as an example, this paper reveals the need for new standards for nodes of BSN and proposes essential considerations to it. It is observed from a previous clinical survey and our theoretical analysis that there are disagreements in existing standards on the validation of conventional BP devices. Moreover, an experiment carried out by our group on 85 subjects demonstrates the inappropriateness of using the existing protocols that are setup for validating cuff-based BP devices to evaluate new cuff-less measurement techniques. The results suggested that a third objective measure could be introduced to relate the variant standards. It is also proposed that different validation criteria should be used for nodes of BSN that are developed based on new measurement principles
{"title":"The evaluation of nodes of body sensor networks: wearable blood pressure measuring devices","authors":"Yuan-ting Zhang, X. Xiang, Carmen C. Y. Poon","doi":"10.1109/BSN.2006.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.2006.53","url":null,"abstract":"It is suggested using wearable medical devices and sensors as the nodes of body sensor networks (BSN) could allow better long-term monitoring of health condition. Nonetheless, the protocol and criteria for validating these nodes in clinical settings is often overlooked. By using the validation of blood pressure (BP) measurement devices as an example, this paper reveals the need for new standards for nodes of BSN and proposes essential considerations to it. It is observed from a previous clinical survey and our theoretical analysis that there are disagreements in existing standards on the validation of conventional BP devices. Moreover, an experiment carried out by our group on 85 subjects demonstrates the inappropriateness of using the existing protocols that are setup for validating cuff-based BP devices to evaluate new cuff-less measurement techniques. The results suggested that a third objective measure could be introduced to relate the variant standards. It is also proposed that different validation criteria should be used for nodes of BSN that are developed based on new measurement principles","PeriodicalId":246227,"journal":{"name":"International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN'06)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133840698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A modular application development platform for miniature wireless sensor/actuator devices called small autonomous network devices (SANDs) is described. As an application example a system power breakdown of a real-time ECG analysis is presented. The application development SANDs have a volume of about one cubic centimeter. Based upon testing and optimization the schematics and specifications are obtained for the mass-production SANDs. Utilizing system in package (SiP) technology the volume can be reduced up to five times. These devices can be used in a truly unnoticeable and unobtrusive way to serve as the smallest components of a personal health care monitoring system or an ambient intelligence system
{"title":"SAND: a modular application development platform for miniature wireless sensors","authors":"M. Ouwerkerk, F. Pasveer, N. Engin","doi":"10.1109/BSN.2006.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.2006.47","url":null,"abstract":"A modular application development platform for miniature wireless sensor/actuator devices called small autonomous network devices (SANDs) is described. As an application example a system power breakdown of a real-time ECG analysis is presented. The application development SANDs have a volume of about one cubic centimeter. Based upon testing and optimization the schematics and specifications are obtained for the mass-production SANDs. Utilizing system in package (SiP) technology the volume can be reduced up to five times. These devices can be used in a truly unnoticeable and unobtrusive way to serve as the smallest components of a personal health care monitoring system or an ambient intelligence system","PeriodicalId":246227,"journal":{"name":"International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN'06)","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115538269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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