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Title: Underwater Applications of Body Area Networks for diver safety and marine biology research


1
Underwater Applications of Body Area Networks
for diver safety and marine biology research
Val Jones Lora Aroyo Application Protocol
Systems CTIT University of Twente contact
jones_at_cs.utwente.nl Seminar at Inter University
Institute, Eilat 29 April 2002
2
Outline
  • APS group at University of Twente
  • Context Current Research (European funded
    projects)
  • Val Joness sabbatical leave project at IUI/BGU
    underwater applications
  • Possible future collaborations

3
Thanks to
  • University of Twente (CTIT, INF, APS group)
  • Inter University Institute, Eilat
  • Avi Baranes
  • Oded Ben Shaphrut
  • Nadav Shashar
  • Karen Tarnerauder
  • Many other colleagues for useful discussions
  • BGU (ISE, Health Sciences)
  • Yuval Shahar and his group, Rami Grossman

4
APS group http//aps.cs.utwente.nl/
  • Research Group, Dept Computer Science, Uni
    Twente, Netherlands
  • Head Dimitri Konstantas (MM apps)
  • 2 other full professors
  • Eddie Michiels (Security)
  • Erik Huizer (Internet Applications)

5
Other staff
Senior Researcher, group coordinator (Val
Jones) 3 Lecturers (Widya, Halteren,
Beijnum) Post-doc researcher (Lora
Aroyo) Researcher (Richard Bults) Support staff
(3 technical, secretary) Visiting Professor
(Valerie Gay) Visiting Scientist (Rob Kleissen)
6
Work Area - ICT
  • Advanced (mobile and wireless) applications and
    services
  • Enabling technologies to support them
  • comms environments
  • QoS
  • Security

7
Application domains
  • Healthcare (e-health, m-health)
  • Education (e-learning, wireless campus)
  • distributed (MM) applications, and their
    extension into the wireless domain

8
Current Research
  • CTIT Centre for Telematics and Information
    Technology
  • APS - Many collaborative projects here mention
    only European funded
  • Mobihealth 5.5 MEURO
  • eMotion 4 MEURO
  • Agent Academy ?? MEURO

9
Mobihealth
  • 2.5-3G Mobile Applications and Services (IST
    7bis)
  • Body Area Networks (BANs) and 2.5/3G
    communications for health monitoring
  • Trials over GPRS/UMTS
  • measurement and transmission of vital signs and
    other bio-signals health monitoring (on the
    move)

10
Mobihealth
  • Partners Ericsson Consulting, Gesundheitscout24,
    Telia, Uni Twente (APS), Uni Lulea, TMSI, Yucat,
    COMPAQ, MST (hospital), Telefonica Moviles, CSC
    (hospital), Uni Pompeu Fabra, Philips Research
    Labs, CMG Wireless Data Solutions
  • Start date May 1st 2002

11
eMotion eMobile Testbed For Interoperability Of
Networks In eLogistics
  • APS part
  • stress test emerging wireless technologies (esp.
    UMTS)
  • Tele Ambulance trial
  • requirements for users (health services/profession
    als/patients)
  • trial MobiHealth BAN in trauma situation

12
eMotion
  • Partners T-Systems Nova, Celtius Oy, BIBA,
    Rosenbauer, OHB Teledata, Telematic Solutions,
    European DataComm, Microsoft, T-Mobile, BEN,
    Siemens, IKOM, Fresius, Uni Twente (APS), Land
    Bremen
  • Start date May 1 2002

13
Agent Academy
  • Title Agent Academy A Data Mining Framework for
    Training Intelligent Agents
  • EU Project Information Society Technologies
    program (IST 2000-31050)
  • Goal development of an integrated framework for
    training Intelligent Agents based on Data Mining
    techniques. The successful outcome of this effort
    is expected to propagate the use of IA-related
    technologies into both business practices and
    personal use.
  • Link to other APS projects Enabling technology
    a.o. for wireless and mobile communications

14
Agent Academy Consortium
  • Partners
  • Centre for Research and Technology Hellas /
    Informatics and Telematics Institute (CERTH/ITI)
    Greece
  • University of Twente (APS) The Netherlands
  • Middle East Technical University (METU) Turkey
  • Tech_at_Spree - Germany
  • Mobile Business and Innovative Solutions (M-BIS)
    Germany
  • Amadee Germany
  • IDI Eikon Spain
  • ALTEC - Greece
  • Start date 1 October 2001

15
Agent Academy Consortium
16
Software demands
  • Dynamics
  • Efficiency (speed, performance)
  • Real-time applications
  • User adaptation
  • Compliance with different platforms
  • Networks

17
Software Agents
  • Software entities
  • similar to software objects (different conceptual
    appearance within the software systems)
  • autonomous behavior
  • learning abilities
  • sense the environment
  • co-operation and collaboration
  • communication abilities
  • Level of intelligence
  • Intelligent
  • Semi-intelligent
  • With minimal autonomous behavior

18
Software Agents
  • Apply
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Intelligent User Interfaces
  • Psychology
  • System Modeling
  • For
  • Adaptation (user-oriented system behavior)
  • Information retrieval (search tools)
  • Mobile systems (roaming mobile agents)
  • E-commerce (personal advisors and assistants)
  • Education

19
Agent Academy framework
  • AA integrated framework
  • untrained agents (dummy agents) minimal
    intelligence
  • train dummy agents ? intelligent agents
  • retrain existing intelligent agents
  • AA Modules
  • Agent Factory (AF) agents selection and
    production
  • Agent Training Module (AT) virtual interactive
    training sessions for Untrained Agents
  • Agent Use Repository (AUR) statistical data on
    prior agent behaviour and experience application
    data
  • Data Miner production of agent training rules

20
Agent Academy framework
Agent Academy
Agent Tracking Data
Agent Use Repository
  • WEB

Data Acquisition
User Profile
Agent Training
Agent Request
Agent Factory
Intelligent Agent
21
Agent Academy is for
  • Application developers
  • Agent System designers
  • IT practitioners and researchers
  • Provides developers with a common platform to
    design, construct and implement agents on
    clients request

22
Agent Academy Agents .
  • Device sensors
  • Environment actuators
  • Personal assistants
  • Personnel trainers
  • Mobile agents
  • Information agents

23
Agent Academy Applications .
  • devices (medical, production, personal, mobile,
    wireless, BAN, etc.) monitoring
  • Co-ordination management
  • Network and connection monitoring
  • Analysis of medical situations
  • Security
  • Languages matching
  • Information search needs
  • Real-time systems management
  • Web-based applications

24
Agent Academy Mobihealth
  • AA can provide Agents for Mobihealth for
  • system, process and information management
    support
  • co-ordination and collaboration (teamwork
    support)
  • training of patients, nurses and doctors
  • workflow support (improve information flow and
    maintenance)

25
Context Mobihealth and follow up projects
Mobihealth
eMotion
Agent Academy
Sabbatical project
Future (European) Projects (eg FP6)
Future European Projects (FP6)
26
Mobihealth Applicationsfor professionals and
patients
  • mobile and wireless technology to support virtual
    healthcare teams, eg.
  • Virtual Trauma Team
  • Link hospital team with mobile trauma team at the
    scene
  • Virtual Homecare Team
  • patient monitoring at home or when roaming

27
Central concept of MobiHealth
  • Body Area Networks
  • Wireless communications
  • Patient monitoring applications
  • Mobile health services for patients

28
Body Area network

29
Trauma Scenario
BAN
BAN
VAN
30
Ambulance Vehicle Area Network
31
Which Network Technology?
Rural GPRS/UMTS/nextG? Satellite?
32
Which Network Technology?
Highway network WLAN? HIPERLAN2? GPRS/UMTS/nextG?
Ricochet networks?
33
Which Network Technology?
City WLAN? GPRS/UMTS/nextG?
34
Which Network Technology?
35
Treatment in hospital
theatre
36
Homecare
WLL, WDSL, HUMAN?
xDSL?
Ambient intelligence eHome patient BAN
37
-gt global roaming
38
BAN design
  • BAN MBU set of devices
  • MBU has computation and communication functions
  • MBU and devices are worn on the body
  • perhaps embedded in clothing, jewellery, glasses
  • perhaps attached directly (eg. cardiac monitor)
  • Perhaps implanted in the body

39
Paramedic BAN
  • highly specific BAN relays video to allow
    hospital staff to be telepresent at the scene,
    and provides 2-way audio communication
  • miniature video camera(s)
  • handsfree headset microphone and earpiece (and
    speakers(?))

40
Diabetic BAN
  • Diabetic patient BAN might have
  • sensor(s) blood glucose monitor
  • actuator(s) (implanted) insulin pump

41
Cardiology BAN
  • Cardiology BAN might have
  • sensors to monitor
  • pulse
  • oxygen saturation
  • BP
  • ECG

42
Individual customisation
  • The BAN is customisable, not only to a class of
    patients (eg. diabetic patients) but also to an
    individual at a certain time
  • ie. to the particular set of (chronic and acute)
    problems of the individual person/patient at a
    particular time
  • Open, flexible, extensible platform

43
Many applications.
  • cardiology
  • diabetes
  • sleep
  • asthma
  • epilepsy
  • EEG/EMG
  • SIDS
  • elderly
  • athletics sports training
  • Extreme sports
  • disabled
  • movement analysis
  • feedback on medication (eg Parkinsons)
  • control morphine pump
  • home cancer care
  • .

44
Mobihealth trials
  • Prototype patient BANs, paramedic BAN, and
    their comms environment
  • Trial over GPRS/UMTS infrastructures
  • International trials

45
Val Jones sabbatical leave project at IUI/BGU
  • 3 months study leave
  • Investigate further applications of ICT
    Technologies, including MobiHealth technologies,
    leading to follow up projects targetted at EU
    funding under FP6
  • Build collaborations with Israeli organisations
    with view to future partnerships in collaborative
    projects

46
Underwater applications
  • Feasibility study into applying and extending
    Mobihealth and related technologies to underwater
    applications
  • Diver safety and diving physiology research
  • Marine biology research
  • Tracking and monitoring marine animals
  • environmental monitoring???

47
Diver safety
  • Body Area Network for divers
  • Extension of dive computer functions
  • Measurement of vital signs plus..
  • Transmission of vital signs (plus) to topside
  • Detect emergency situations
  • Local alert/intervention to diver
  • Alert remote support team
  • comms diver-diver, diver-support team
  • Data collection for research

48

ScubaBAN

Positioning???
49
LF radio Sonar optical
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What do we want to detect/prevent?
  • decompression sickness
  • Nitrogen narcosis
  • Oxygen toxicity
  • Lung overexpansion injury
  • Diver stress
  • HPNS (high pressure neurological syndrome)
  • Air supply problems.
  • In general, detect emergency situation early

51
What would be useful to monitor?
  • Pulse rate
  • Respiration (rate, volume.)
  • BP
  • Temperature
  • gases
  • Air usage
  • Rate of ascent

52
What would be useful to monitor? (2)
  • Blood gases (oxygen, nitrogen, helium..)
  • Nitrogen in tissue
  • Microbubble formation
  • Process of gas absorption and desaturation
  • Real time feedback and control loop to optimise
    mix of gases for trimix, surface supply and
    rebreathers

53
ScubaBAN
  • Technical elements
  • sensors
  • MBU
  • Intra-BAN comms
  • Extra-BAN comms
  • Mobihealth BAN but Underwater !!!
  • Relevant expertise at IUI

54
Marine biology research
  • Tracking of marine animals
  • positioning system
  • sharks, dolphins, whales, turtles
  • measure vital signs, other physiological
    parameters
  • deep diving mammals
  • (eg. (elephant) seals, whales, manatees ).
  • Extreme pressure at depth

55
Some potential overlapping areas..
  • Recording and/or transmission of position,
    biosignals, audio/video from/of marine animals
    including human divers ?
  • Environmental monitoring using underwater
    sensors/audio/video
  • tide, temperature, waves
  • Underwater mapping / GIS

56
Potential future collaborations
  • Visiting potential partners to discuss possible
    collaboration, in areas including
  • Wireless comms and wireless applications
  • (inc underwater comms)
  • Miniature multimedia devices and (wireless)
    (underwater) transmission of MM information
  • Sensor technology
  • (esp. in human and marine biology)

57
Future
  • FP6 - Ambient intelligent environments
  • Nanotechnologies
  • New power technologies
  • New display technologies.
  • Ad Hoc networking/self organisation
  • This implies many innovations in many
    disciplines!

58
  • FIN

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MobiHealth system involves
  • High quality, real time 2-way synchronised video,
    audio streams, bio-signals, data
  • from anywhere in the community including from
    fast roaming (moving) vehicles
  • Broadband wide area wireless networks
  • BANs, PANs, VANs, VPNs

60
Mobihealth technologies
  • IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15, IEEE 802.16, Bluetooth,
    GPRS, HSCSD, UMTS, 4G,
  • IPv4, IPv6, Mobile IP, IPSec
  • fast roaming, horizontal (intra-),
  • vertical (inter- technology) handover
  • Short range, low power devices
  • Biometrics
  • biosensors, actuators

61
Body Area Network
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BAN - communication
  • Intra BAN MBU and devices are linked in a
    network and they communicate with each other
    (wired, wireless or both) via the MBU
  • Inter BAN wireless communication between BANs
    and in general with other networks (eg eHome,
    RAN)
  • - perhaps by Ad Hoc networking

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Generic and specific BANs
  • Generic BAN MBU
  • Specific BANs are customised by adding a specific
    set of devices as appropriate to a role (eg
    paramedic BAN) or for a certain (set of) needs,
    eg. diabetic patient BAN
  • Plus the associated applications
  • Devices sensors, actuators, audio/video
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