Context Aware Body Area Networks for Telemedicine

Jones, V.M. and Mei, H. and Broens, T.H.F. and Widya, I.A. and Peuscher, J. (2007) Context Aware Body Area Networks for Telemedicine. In: 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM, 11-14 Dec 2007, Hong Kong, China.

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Abstract:	A Body Area Network (BAN) is a body worn system which provides the user with a set of mobile services. A BAN incorporates a set of devices (eg. mp3 player, video camera, speakers, microphone, head-up display, positioning device, sensors, actuators). A BAN service platform for mobile healthcare and several health BANs targetting different clinical applications have been devel-oped at the University of Twente. Each specialization of the BAN is equipped with a certain set of devices and associated application components, as appro-priate to the clinical application. Different kinds of clinical data may be cap-tured, transmitted and displayed, including text, numeric values, images and multiple biosignal streams. Timely processing and transmission of such multi-media clinical data in a distributed mobile environment requires smart strate-gies. Here we present one approach to designing smart distributed applications to deal with multimedia BAN data; namely the context awareness approach de-veloped in the FREEBAND AWARENESS project.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Copyright:	© 2007 Springer
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Biomedical Signals and Systems (BSS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/62082
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77255-2_74
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