Development of low-power UWB body sensors

Body Sensor; Pulse Generator; UWB; WBAN; Hardware implementations; High data rate wireless; Impulse Radio; Low Power; Narrow bands; Off-the-shelf components; Physical layers; Pulse repetitive frequency; Sensor designs; UWB pulse; UWB receivers; Wireless body area network; Wireless technologies; Communication systems; Hardware; Local area networks; Network layers; Pulse generators; Sensor nodes; Ultra-wideband (UWB); Wireless telecommunication systems; Information technology

Abstract :

[en] Ultra-wide band (UWB) is gaining popularity as a physical layer technique for low power and high data rate wireless applications. Currently most wireless body area network (WBAN) platforms are based on narrowband wireless technology such as ZigBee and Bluetooth. This paper presents hardware implementation of impulse radio ultra-wide band (IR-UWB) based sensor nodes. Two major approaches for the development of an IR-UWB sensor node are discussed herein. A UWB receiver implementation using off-the-shelf components is also described. This communication system is used to evaluate the performance of the UWB sensor nodes in terms of bit error rate (BER). A technique for dynamically varying the pulse repetitive frequency (PRF) of the UWB pulses is also discussed in this paper as a further improvement for the suggested sensor designs. © 2012 IEEE.

Disciplines :

Electrical & electronics engineering

Author, co-author :

Yuce, M. R.; Monash University, Wellington Road, VIC 3800, Australia

Redouté, Jean-Michel ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Systèmes microélectroniques intégrés

Thotahewa, K. M.; Monash University, Wellington Road, VIC 3800, Australia

Keong, H. C.; Electrical Eng. and Computer Sci., University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia

Language :

English

Title :

Development of low-power UWB body sensors

Publication date :

2012

Event name :

2012 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, ISCIT 2012

Event date :

2 October 2012 through 5 October 2012

Audience :

International

Journal title :

International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, ISCIT

Pages :

143-148

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

Commentary :

94809 9781467311571

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