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Plug ‘n Play Simplicity for Wireless Medical Body Sensors

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Wireless medical body sensors are a key technology for unobtrusive health monitoring. The easy setup of such wireless body area networks is crucial to protect the user from the complexity of these systems. But automatically forming a wireless network comprising all sensors attached to the same body is challenging. We present a method for making wireless body-worn medical sensors aware of the persons they belong to by combining body-coupled with wireless communication. This enables a user to create a wireless body sensor network by just sticking the sensors to her body. A personal identifier allows sensors to annotate their readings with a user ID thereby ensuring safety in personal healthcare environments with multiple users.

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Falck, T., Baldus, H., Espina, J. et al. Plug ‘n Play Simplicity for Wireless Medical Body Sensors. Mobile Netw Appl 12, 143–153 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-007-0016-2

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