Body Area Networks

1. Body Area Networks MIE 452F Information Systems Infrastructure Focus Topic Presentation By: Danny Leung

2. Presentation Overview • What are Body Area Networks (BANs)? • Personal Area Networks (PANs) • Definition & Domain • BAN Applications • MobiHealth Studies/Implementation • BAN & JINI • Conclusion • Further Studies

3. Personal Area Networks • PANs • interconnection of information technology devices within the range of an individual person, typically within a range of 10 meters • WPAN – wireless • Current Developments • Innovative data delivery involving capacitively coupling picoamp currents!

4. PANs & BANs • Body Area Networks • Subgroup of PANs • Domain: HealthCare • Compact & Mobile • Enable transfer of vital parameters • Medical Communication

5. BAN Structure Adapted from • MobiHealth

6. BAN Components • MBU (Mobile Base Unit) • Known as the processing centre/hub • Sensors & Actuators • Internal ( intra-BAN) Communication • External (Extra-BAN) Communication

7. Extra-BAN Communication • Based on GPRS and UMTS technologies for wireless broadband data transfer • GPRS (2.5G) • UMTS (3G)

8. GPRS • General Packet Radio Services • Standard for wireless communications • packet-based • runs at speeds up to 115 kilobits per second, compared with current GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) systems' 9.6 kilobits. • supports a wide range of bandwidths

9. UMTS • Universal Mobile Telecommunications System • deliver information at speeds up to 2Mbits/sec. • analog cellular was the first generation, digital PCS (personal communications service) the second • 3G

10. BAN Issues • Security for BAN transmission protocol • Protection of information and control systems from unauthorized access • Fast, reliable identification and authentication • Availability & Reliability of communication resources • QoS guarantees for bandwidth, delay, and bit error rate

11. BAN Applications • Remote Health Monitoring • MobiHealth, project at the Technical University Twente, The Netherlands • Commissioned by the European Commission (2000) • 1st live demo of BAN at the Medica International and Medical Conference and Exhibition (2002)

12. MobiHealth • Focus on scenarios such as: • Trauma Care • Continual health monitoring • Mobile service platform

13. Service Platform Architecture Adapted from • [Nikolay Dokovsky, Aart van Halteren, Ing Widya, ] BANip: enabling remote healthcare monitoring with Body Area NetworksInternational Workshop on scientiFic engIneering of Distributed Java applIcations 27-28 November, 2003; Luxemburg , Luxemburg

14. MobilHealth & JINI • Dynamic discovery of services offered by a BAN • Requires RMI, so implemented according to Surrogate Architecture • BANip – an interconnect protocol • Hide complexities • Extendible to webserver technology

15. Adapted from • [Nikolay Dokovsky, Aart van Halteren, Ing Widya, ] BANip: enabling remote healthcare monitoring with Body Area NetworksInternational Workshop on scientiFic engIneering of Distributed Java applIcations 27-28 November, 2003; Luxemburg , Luxemburg

16. Further Study • Currently MobiHealth deployed in 9 healthcare field trials in four European countries • Evaluate 2.5/3G wireless technologies • BANs & the development of in-body communication systems (Zarlink)

17. References • Val Jones, Richard Bults, Dimitri Konstantas, Pieter A.M. Vierhout, ] Healthcare PANs: Personal Area Networks for trauma care and home careFourth International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC)Sept. 9-12, 2001; Aalborg , Denmark ISBN 87-988568-0-4{ healthcare, wireless, broadband, video, trauma, homecare, } • [Dimitri Konstantas, Val Jones, Richard Bults, Rainer Herzog, ] MobiHealth _ innovative 2.5 / 3G mobile services and applications for healthcare11th IST Mobile and Wireless Telecommunications Summit 2002 June 16-19, 2002; Thessaloniki , Greece • [Dimitri Konstantas, Val Jones, Richard Bults, Rainer Herzog, ] MobiHealth - Wireless mobile services and applications for healthcare International ConferenceOn Telemedicine - Integration of Health Telematics into Medical Practice Sep 22nd-25th, 2002; Regensburg , Germany • [Nikolay Dokovsky, Aart van Halteren, Ing Widya, ] BANip: enabling remote healthcare monitoring with Body Area NetworksInternational Workshop on scientiFic engIneering of Distributed Java applIcations 27-28 November, 2003; Luxemburg , Luxemburg • [Ing Widya, Aart van Halteren, Val Jones, Richard Bults, Dimitri Konstantas, ] Telematic Requirements for a Mobile and Wireless Healthcare System derived from Enterprise ModelsConTEL'03 (7th International Conference on Telecommunications) 11-13 June 2003; Zagreb , Croatia • [Val Jones, Aart van Halteren, Ing Widya, Nikolai Dokovsky, George Koprinkov, Richard Bults, Dimitri Konstantas, Rainer Herzog, ] Mobihealth: Mobile Health Services based on Body Area Networks (forthcoming)In: M-Health: Emerging Mobile Health Systems Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers , • [Val Jones, Nadav Shashar, Oded Ben Shaphrut, Kevin Lavigne, Rienk Rienks, Richard Bults, Dimitri Konstantas, Pieter Vierhout, Jan Peuscher, Aart van Halteren, Rainer Herzog, Ing Widya, ] Remote Monitoring for Healthcare and for Safety in Extreme Environments (forthcoming)In: M-Health: Emerging Mobile Health Systems Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers ,

18. More References • [Ing Widya, Pieter Vierhout, Val Jones, Richard Bults, Aart van Halteren, Jan Peuscher, Dimitri Konstantas, ] Telematics Support for Disaster Situations (forthcoming)In: M-Health: Emerging Mobile Health Systems Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers , • [Val Jones, Aart van Halteren, Nikolai Dokovsky, George Koprinkov, Jan Peuscher, Richard Bults, Dimitri Konstantas, Ing Widya, Rainer Herzog, ] Mobihealth: Mobile Services for Health Professionals(forthcoming)In: M-Health: Emerging Mobile Health Systems Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers , • [Val Jones, F. Incardona, C. Tristram, S. Virtuoso, A. Lymberis, ] Future Challenges and Recommendations(forthcoming)In: M-Health: Emerging Mobile Health Systems Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers , • [Dimitri Konstantas, Aart van Halteren, Richard Bults, K. Wac, Val Jones, Ing Widya, ] Body Area Networks for Ambulant Patient Monitoring Over NExt Generation Public Wireless Networks(forthcoming)3th IST Mobile Wireless Communications Summit 2004 27-30 June 2004; Lyon , France • [Aart van Halteren, Richard Bults, Ing Widya, Val Jones, Dimitri Konstantas, ] Mobihealth-Wireless body area networks for healthcareNew generation of wearable systems for ehealth: towards a revolution of citizens' health and life style 11-14 December 2003; Lucca , Italy • [Dimitri Konstantas, ] Using UMTS in Emergency health careMobile Solutions 2004 16 April 2004; Rotterdam , the Netherlands • http://ulp.zarlink.com/ban.htm • http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/iswc/2004/2186/00/21860184.pdf • http://www.e-ssist.fraunhofer.de/technologien/bodycom/index_e.html • PAN • http://www.media.mit.edu/physics/publications/theses/95.09.zimmerman.pdf • http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/mit/sectione/zimmerman.html • ADHOC • http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=989711.989713&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=31872468&CFTOKEN=26611005 • http://www.fokus.gmd.de/medica2003/download/BAN_E.pdf

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