Body Sensor Networks

The term BSN - Body Sensor Network was coined by Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang of Imperial College in 2002. The concept of the BSN is to address the technological challenges and requirements in the development of pervasive sensing technologies and systems for healthcare, well being and sport applications. The recent advances in wireless and sensing technologies have facilitiated the development of wearable and implantable devices for long-term monitoring. While the problem of long-term stability and biocompatibility is being addressed, prototypes are starting to emerge for managing patients with acute diabetes, for treatment of epilepsy and other debilitating neurological disorders and for monitoring of patients with chronic cardiac diseases.
Some of the key research focuses of the BSN community includes the latest technological developments and clinical applications of:
* Novel bioelectrical, biochemical, biophysical, and mechanical sensors
* Hardware considerations: low power RF transceiver, energy scavenging, battery technology, miniaturisation, system integration, process and cost of manufacturing
* Biocompatibility and materials
* Context awareness and multi-sensor data fusion
* Data inferencing, knowledge discovery, and prediction
* Quality of service, trust and security issues
* Autonomic sensor networks
* Standards and light-weight communication protocols
* Integration with ambient sensing with applications in smart dwellings, and home monitoring
* Wearable and implantable sensor integration and development platforms
* Clinical applications of body-sensor networks
Applications
Healthcare
* Post-operative care
* Parkinson's Disease
* COPD
* Ambulatory patient monitoring
* Surgical recovery
* Stroke
* Surgical skill assessment
Elderly Care
* Continuous monitoring
* Fall detection
Sport
* Swimming
* Cycling
* Rowing/Kayak
* Tennis
Entertainment
* Gaming
* Music
Activity and Motion Analysis
* Gait analysis
* Energy expenditure estimation
* Human back movement analysis
* Wheelchair movement analysis
* Rehabilitation
Others
* Neonatal Monitoring
* Assistive communication device
Conferences
International Conference on Wearable and Implanatable Body Sensor Networks
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Related Research Projects
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* CAPSIL - Common Awareness and Knowledge Platform for Studying and Enabling Independent Living
* SESAME - SEnsing for Sport And Managed Exercise
* HeartCycle project
* BiosensorNet - Autonomic Biosensor Networks for Pervasive Healthcare
* [http://www.wearitatwork.com/ WearIT@Work Project]
* [http://www.healthcareathome.info%20/ Healthcare@Home]
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* SAPHE - Smart and Aware Pervasive Healthcare Environments
* DARPA - ASSIST Advanced Soldier Sensor Information System and Technology
* WASP - Wirelessly Accessible Sensor Populations
* Palcom
* Microsoft Research Sensecam Project
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* Celeritas Project
* UbiMon - Ubiquitous Monitoring Environment for Wearable and Implantable Sensors
* UbiSense - Vision-based sensing for elderly and chronically ill people
* TEKLA
* IN-MONIT
* CLINICIP
* [http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLERPROJ_IST&ACTIOND&DOC69&CATPROJ&QUERY1177261311358&RCN80532 PERSONA: (PERceptive Spaces prOmoting iNdependent Aging)]
* Biotex
* Wearable Computing Laboratory
* AlarmNet
* AMS
* AYUSHMAN
* MIThril
* BASUMA
* HUMAN++
* InsideOutside
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* WsHC - Wireless Health and Care
* Fraunhofer Body Area Network
* MobiHealth
* Wealthy
* HEARTS
* MyHeart
* Healthy Aims
* [http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/%7Emdw/proj/codeblue/ CodeBlue: Wireless Sensor Networks for Medical Care]
* Smart-Its
Related Books
* [http://www.springer.com/uk/home/generic/search/results?SGWID=3-40109-22-92733076-0 Body Sensor Networks - Yang, Guang-Zhong (Ed.), Springer, 2006]
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* [http://www.intechopen.com/books/show/title/emerging-communications-for-wireless-sensor-networks Emerging Communications for Wireless Sensor Networks, Anna Foerster and Alexander Foerster (Ed), InTech, 2011]
Also See
* Wireless Sensor Networks
* Body Area Network

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