Effects of human limb gestures on galvanic coupling intra-body communication for advanced healthcare system

被引：10

作者：

Chen, Xi Mei ^{[1
,2
]}

Pun, Sio Hang ^{[1
]}

Zhao, Jian Feng ^{[3
]}

Mak, Peng Un ^{[2
]}

Liang, Bo Dong ^{[3
]}

Vai, Mang I. ^{[1
,2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Macau, State Key Lab Analog & Mixed Signal VLSI, Ave Univ, Taipa, Macau, Peoples R China

[2] Univ Macau, Elect & Comp Engn, Ave Univ, Taipa, Macau, Peoples R China

[3] Shenzhen Polytech, West Shahe St Xili Lake, Shenzhen 518000, Guangdong, Peoples R China

来源：

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING ONLINE | 2016年 / 15卷

关键词：

Human limb gestures; Joint angle; Muscle fatigue; Bit error rate; Galvanic coupling intra-body communication; SPECTRUM; CHANNEL;

D O I：

10.1186/s12938-016-0192-z

中图分类号：

R318 [生物医学工程];

学科分类号：

0831 ;

摘要：

Background: Intra-Body Communication (IBC), which utilizes the human body as the transmission medium to transmit signal, is a potential communication technique for the physiological data transfer among the sensors of remote healthcare monitoring system, in which the doctors are permitted to remotely access the healthcare data without interrupt to the patients' daily activities. Methods: This work investigates the effects of human limb gestures including various joint angles, hand gripping force and loading on galvanic coupling IBC channel. The experiment results show that channel gain is significantly influenced by the joint angle (i.e. gain variation 1.09-11.70 dB, p < 0.014). The extension, as well as the appearance of joint in IBC channel increases the channel attenuation. While the other gestures and muscle fatigue have negligible effect (gain variation < 0.77 dB, p > 0.793) on IBC channel. Moreover, the change of joint angle on human limb IBC channel causes significant variation in bit error rate (BER) performance. Conclusions: The results reveal the dynamic behavior of galvanic coupling IBC channel, and provide suggestions for practical IBC system design.

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