Body Area Network

Wireless communication between man and machine

Body Area Network stands for wireless communication between various components attached to the body, such as data spectacles, earphones, microphones or sensors.
By its wireless connections between the individual components, Body Area Network allows a variety of different applications:

Medical applications

• Transmission of body parameters such as blood pressure, pulse rate, body temperature
• Transmission of of body implant parameters
• Digital spectacles and hearing aids

Work

• Augmented reality to support production and maintenance
• Perceptual interface in mobile voice communication
• Access/identification systems by identification of individual peripheral devices

Leisure

• Music entertainment
• Navigation support in the car or while walking
• Museum or city guide
• Pulse rate monitoring in sports
• Monitoring of babies
• Wireless cash card: Display of recent transactions and checking of balance

Features

• Transmission without interferences
• Worldwide licensing
• No licensing fees
• Low transmission power
• Low complexity due to network organisation by base station
• Extremely small hardware
• Broadband local area communication
• Ad hoc networking
• Intelligent peripheral devices which can be connected to a portable base station
• Low power circuitry and technology (LP)
• Mechanically flexible materials as basic materials for system integration
• Simple channel and source coding
• Scalable data rates of up to 120 kBit/s