TY - GEN
T1 - A hybrid body sensor network for continuous and long-term measurement of arterial blood pressure
AU - Chan, C. H.
AU - Poon, C. C.Y.
AU - Wong, Raymond C.S.
AU - Zhang, Y. T.
PY - 2007/8
Y1 - 2007/8
N2 - Continuous and long-term measurement of arterial blood pressure (BP) and its variability is an important but unsolved topic in physiological monitoring. A possible solution is to use an approach that estimate BP based on pulse transit time. Since the method requires information collected from sensors placed at various body locations, a network could be setup to connect the different sensors effectively and securely. In this paper, we propose using multiple modes of communication, including communication via wired, wireless and/or biological channels (bio-channels) of the human body, to network the various sensors, i.e. the idea of hybrid body sensor network (h-BSN). Preliminary results show that h-BSN is potentially useful for monitoring BP over extensive periods of time and the idea can be extended to other applications that employ multiple on-body or in-body sensors.
AB - Continuous and long-term measurement of arterial blood pressure (BP) and its variability is an important but unsolved topic in physiological monitoring. A possible solution is to use an approach that estimate BP based on pulse transit time. Since the method requires information collected from sensors placed at various body locations, a network could be setup to connect the different sensors effectively and securely. In this paper, we propose using multiple modes of communication, including communication via wired, wireless and/or biological channels (bio-channels) of the human body, to network the various sensors, i.e. the idea of hybrid body sensor network (h-BSN). Preliminary results show that h-BSN is potentially useful for monitoring BP over extensive periods of time and the idea can be extended to other applications that employ multiple on-body or in-body sensors.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISSMDBS.2007.4338307
DO - 10.1109/ISSMDBS.2007.4338307
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 1-4244-1346-X
SN - 978-1-4244-1345-4
T3 - Proceedings of the 4th IEEE-EMBS International Summer School and Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors, ISSS-MDBS 2007
SP - 121
EP - 123
BT - Proceedings of the 4th IEEE-EMBS International Summer School and Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors (ISSS-MDBS)
PB - IEEE
T2 - 4th IEEE-EMBS International Summer School and Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors (ISSS-MDBS 2007)
Y2 - 19 August 2007 through 22 August 2007
ER -