Body Area Networks

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Body Area Networks

• MIE 452F
• Information Systems Infrastructure
• Focus Topic Presentation
• By Danny Leung

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Presentation Overview

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

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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!

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PANs BANs

• Body Area Networks
• Subgroup of PANs
• Domain HealthCare
• Compact Mobile
• Enable transfer of vital parameters
• Medical Communication

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BAN Structure

• Adapted from
• MobiHealth

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BAN Components

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

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Extra-BAN Communication

• Based on GPRS and UMTS technologies for wireless
  broadband data transfer
• GPRS (2.5G)
• UMTS (3G)

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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MobiHealth

• Focus on scenarios such as
• Trauma Care
• Continual health monitoring
• Mobile service platform

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Service Platform Architecture

• Adapted from
• Nikolay Dokovsky, Aart van Halteren, Ing Widya,
  BANip enabling remote healthcare monitoring
  with Body Area Networks International Workshop
  on scientiFic engIneering of Distributed Java
  applIcations 27-28 November, 2003 Luxemburg ,
  Luxemburg

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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

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• Adapted from
• Nikolay Dokovsky, Aart van Halteren, Ing Widya,
  BANip enabling remote healthcare monitoring
  with Body Area Networks International Workshop
  on scientiFic engIneering of Distributed Java
  applIcations 27-28 November, 2003 Luxemburg ,
  Luxemburg

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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)

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References

• Val Jones, Richard Bults, Dimitri Konstantas,
  Pieter A.M. Vierhout, Healthcare PANs
  Personal Area Networks for trauma care and home
  care Fourth 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
  healthcare 11th 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 Networks International 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 Models ConTEL'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 ,

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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 healthcare New 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 care Mobile Solutions 2004 16 April
  2004 Rotterdam , the Netherlands
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