Advances in Wireless Body Area Networks

• Monday, 23 June 2014, 09:00-12:50, Room Da Vinci
• Organizers:
  • Vincent Peiris (CSEM, Switzerland)
  • Chiara Buratti (University of Bologna, Italy)

Workshop Description

The Workshop will give an inter-disciplinary view of the technology trends in the field of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) and their potential in supporting healthcare applications.

WBAN will gain wide market acceptance only if the personal sensing and interacting capabilities can be significantly improved thanks to miniature, unobtrusive, long-lifetime sensor nodes. Therefore, the key challenges for WBAN are the miniaturization of the integrated components, the achievement of ultra-low-energy consumption, such as the design of flexible communication protocols, accounting for the proper on-body and off-body radio channel and the possible presence of interference.

The Workshop is organized in the framework of the EC funded FP7 WiserBAN Project, which is about improving personal sensing capabilities by using miniature, unobtrusive, long-lifetime sensor nodes. WiserBAN will create an ultra-miniature and ultra low-power RF microsystem for WBANs.

The first five speakers will be researchers of institutions involved in WiserBAN, providing talks, not only focused on the WiserBAN itself, but dealing with different aspects of WBANs. While the last two talks will be given by invited speakers not involved in the WiserBAN project and bringing the perspective of biomedics and robotics.

Structure

09:00-10:40

Ultra-low-power and low-voltage integrated radios for WBAN applications, Vincent Peiris (CSEM, Switzerland)
Antenna and propagation for on-body communication, Raffaele D’Errico (CEA-LETI, Frnace)
Channel modelling for off-body and inter-bodies communications, Ramona Rosini (University of Bologna, Italy)
RF communication for leadless pacemakers implanted inside the heart and peripheral medical devices, Renzo Dal Molin (SORIN, France)

11:10-12:50

Communication Protocols in WBANs, Chiara Buratti (University of Bologna, Italy)
A WBAN implementation of an intelligent tutoring systems for gait enhancement and rehabilitation of persons with Parkinson’s disease, Lorenzo Chiari (University of Bologna, Italy)
Artificial Touch for Hand Neuroprostheses, Calogero Oddo (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)
Discussion and Conclusions, Vincent Peiris (CSEM, Switzerland)