Abstract
Body Area Networks (BANs) facilitate a fine grained monitoring of human physical parameters. In current projects, BANs are often seen as single autonomous systems. By allowing BAN-to-BAN communication, information can be piggybacked to other BANs and forwarded to a central server automatically. Besides monitoring of patients, this technology is applicable in many other sectors as well. In this paper we introduce MarathonNet's pacemate as the central device of a BAN that supports BAN-BAN and BAN-Backend communication and serves as the BAN-User interface. We present results of our first prototypes and practical experiences on internetworking of 60 mobile BANs during a running competition.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | BODYNETS 2007 - 2nd International ICST Conference on Body Area Networks |
Number of pages | 8 |
Publisher | ICST |
Publication date | 01.01.2007 |
Pages | 1-8 |
Article number | 7 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-963062193-9 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 01.01.2007 |
Event | ICST 2nd International Conference on Body Area Networks - Florence, Italy Duration: 11.06.2007 → 13.06.2007 Conference number: 114517 |