Wireless body sensor network
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N. V.
InventorThomas Falck
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Abstract
Disclosed are communication devices especially devices adapted for use as body-worn medical sensors for continuously measuring ECG, SpO2, heart rate, blood pressure and the like, and in particular a method and apparatus for setting up wireless networks of such devices, specifically a communication device adapted for attachment to the body of a wearer so as to form part of a body area network (“BAN”) comprising a body coupled communication (“BCC”) device, and a short-range radio device, the device including means for detecting other similar communication devices on the wearer using BCC, and means for establishing a wireless network with other such devices using their short range radios.
Claims7
A communication device adapted for attachment to the body of a wearer so as to form part of a body area network (“BAN”) comprising a body coupled communication (“BCC”) device, and a short-range radio device, the device including means for detecting other similar communication devices on the wearer using BCC, and means for establishing a wireless network with other such devices using their short range radios, wherein the BCC device includes:
- (a) means for discovering other similar devices attached to the same person;
- (b) means for exchanging network parameters with similar devices;
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- (c) means for sending a wake-up signal to a short-range radio device, which is in a low power sleep mode.
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