Measurement System for the Characterization of the Human Body as a Communication Channel at Low Frequency

Wegmueller, Marc Simon; Lehnert, A.; Froehlcih, J.; Reutemann, R.; Oberle, Michael; Felber, N.; Kuster, Niels; Hess, Oscar; Fichtner, W.

doi:10.1109/iembs.2005.1617234

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“…A range of different network and communication protocols have been developed for electronics during the last decades that extend connectivity and distribution of the web throughout our society. Body area networks (BANs), based on traditional Si-chip technology, have been proposed and developed 9,10 and standards are also evolving 11 . These take use of the human body as a communication channel with, for instance, our hands as the galvanic or capacitive connectors.…”

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confidence: 99%

Browsing the Real World using Organic Electronics, Si‐Chips, and a Human Touch

Berggren

Simon

Nilsson³

et al. 2016

Advanced Materials

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Organic electronics have been developed according to an orthodox doctrine advocating "allprinted'', "all-organic'' and "ultra-low-cost'' primarily targeting various e-paper applications. In order to harvest from the great opportunities afforded with organic electronics potentially operating as communication and sensor outposts within existing and future complex communication infrastructures, high-quality computing and communication protocols must be integrated with the organic electronics. Here, we debate and scrutinize the twinning of the signal processing capability of traditional integrated silicon chips with organic electronics and sensors, and to use our body as a natural local network with our bare hand as the browser of the physical world. The resulting platform provides a body network, i.e. a personalized web, comprised of e-label sensors, bioelectronics and mobile devices that together make it possible to monitor and record both our ambience as well as health status parameters, supported by the ubiquitous mobile network and the resources of the "cloud".

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Browsing the Real World using Organic Electronics, Si‐Chips, and a Human Touch

Berggren

Simon

Nilsson³

et al. 2016

Advanced Materials

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“…The new component electrooptic sensor was introduced in the transceiver by Shinagawa et al [80]; a data rate of 10 Mbps was reached. The comparison of modulation schemes FSK and BPSK was conducted by Wegmueller et al [43]. It was found that, with input current of 2 mA, BPSK and FSK obtained a data rate of 255 kbps and 128 kbps, respectively.…”

Section: Static Body Behaviormentioning

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“…After the pioneering work of successfully implementing HBC, considerable researches have been conducted by research groups to investigate the channel gain at different distances and regions of body such as arm, thorax, leg, and the back [43,44]. Accompanying with the experimental investigations, the theoretical researches on the transmission mechanism have become a major research topic.…”

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A Review on Human Body Communication: Signal Propagation Model, Communication Performance, and Experimental Issues

Zhao

Chen²,

Liang

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Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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Human body communication (HBC), which uses the human body tissue as the transmission medium to transmit health informatics, serves as a promising physical layer solution for the body area network (BAN). The human centric nature of HBC offers an innovative method to transfer the healthcare data, whose transmission requires low interference and reliable data link. Therefore, the deployment of HBC system obtaining good communication performance is required. In this regard, a tutorial review on the important issues related to HBC data transmission such as signal propagation model, channel characteristics, communication performance, and experimental considerations is conducted. In this work, the development of HBC and its first attempts are firstly reviewed. Then a survey on the signal propagation models is introduced. Based on these models, the channel characteristics are summarized; the communication performance and selection of transmission parameters are also investigated. Moreover, the experimental issues, such as electrodes and grounding strategies, are also discussed. Finally, the recommended future studies are provided.

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“…The basic theory of BCC is that a small electric field is induced into the human body in order to propagate a signal between devices that are in the impedance of [16], or in direct contact with, the human body. The two conceptually different approaches to motivate the electrical signal onto the body have been in advance proposed first capacitive coupling and second galvanic coupling.…”

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A Literature Review of the Human Body as a Communication Medium using RedTacton

Perwej¹

2016

CAE

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At present many technologies for networking are known and are in use. These technologies connect people, objects and other networks together so as to dispense data and thus make information ready for access. In the world of computers, networking is the practice of linking two or more computing devices together for the purpose of dispensing data. In this paper, we introduce novel networking technology called RedTacton was announced by NTT labs from Japan in 2005, which makes use of human body surface as communication medium when exchanging data among people, objects and networks. The RedTacton takes a different technical viewpoint. Instead of relying on electromagnetic waves or light waves to carry data, RedTacton uses feeble electric fields on the surface of the body as a transmission medium. Electricfield communication is dissimilar from orthodox wireless or infrared communication which simply does not rely on electromagnetic or light wave to transmit data because it uses the electric field procreate on the surface of the human body. This is mainly developed to conquer an interposing of unwanted signal in intensive places has become a major issue and the better solution to this can be, a human body functioning as non-stop transmitter and receiver. The RedTacton communication is possible using any body surfaces, such as the hands, fingers, arms, feet, face, legs or toes. Red Tacton can be used in any media including water, glass, wood, shoes and clothing as well etc. The electric field/Photonics method employed by Red Tacton is preferable to conventional methods in terms of communication distance, speed, and interactivity. In this paper, I will discuss about RedTacton, and it's working states, body coupled communications, transceiver and applications of RedTacton in various fields.

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Measurement System for the Characterization of the Human Body as a Communication Channel at Low Frequency

Cited by 38 publications

References 5 publications

Browsing the Real World using Organic Electronics, Si‐Chips, and a Human Touch

Browsing the Real World using Organic Electronics, Si‐Chips, and a Human Touch

A Review on Human Body Communication: Signal Propagation Model, Communication Performance, and Experimental Issues

A Literature Review of the Human Body as a Communication Medium using RedTacton

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