High reliability body sensor network using gesture triggered burst transmission

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Sabti, Haider A
Thiel, David V
Griffith University Author(s)
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2015
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Body Sensor Networks (BSN) is a developing area of research that allows wireless sensors to collect important parameters and monitor the human body. The wrist movement of a test subject running at moderate speed was monitored using accelerometer sensors. The sensor nodes were programmed to follow a gesture transmission technique to collect acceleration data and to predict the best limb position for communications while the athlete is moving. This paper reports a high reliability wireless network to acquire 50 Hz movement acceleration during running. This reduces transmission power and increases the reliability. A result of ...
View more >Body Sensor Networks (BSN) is a developing area of research that allows wireless sensors to collect important parameters and monitor the human body. The wrist movement of a test subject running at moderate speed was monitored using accelerometer sensors. The sensor nodes were programmed to follow a gesture transmission technique to collect acceleration data and to predict the best limb position for communications while the athlete is moving. This paper reports a high reliability wireless network to acquire 50 Hz movement acceleration during running. This reduces transmission power and increases the reliability. A result of 30% data loss was reduced to around 1% compared to continuous communications. This technology is important for a wide range of monitoring applications including measuring movement symmetry, physiology and athlete rehabilitation.
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View more >Body Sensor Networks (BSN) is a developing area of research that allows wireless sensors to collect important parameters and monitor the human body. The wrist movement of a test subject running at moderate speed was monitored using accelerometer sensors. The sensor nodes were programmed to follow a gesture transmission technique to collect acceleration data and to predict the best limb position for communications while the athlete is moving. This paper reports a high reliability wireless network to acquire 50 Hz movement acceleration during running. This reduces transmission power and increases the reliability. A result of 30% data loss was reduced to around 1% compared to continuous communications. This technology is important for a wide range of monitoring applications including measuring movement symmetry, physiology and athlete rehabilitation.
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Journal Title
Procedia Engineering
Volume
112
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© 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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Engineering
Sports science and exercise not elsewhere classified