TY - BOOK
T1 - From BAN to AmI-BAN
T2 - micro and nano technologies in future Body Area Networks
AU - Jones, Val
PY - 2006/7/1
Y1 - 2006/7/1
N2 - At the University of Twente we have been researching mobile
healthcare applications since 1999. Since 2002 the University of Twente and
partners have been developing health Body Area Networks (BANs) and a
BAN service platform. We define a BAN as a network of communicating
devices worn on, around or in the body which provides mobile services to
the user. The BAN may also communicate to remote users such as
healthcare providers via external network services such as GPRS or UMTS.
The generic BAN has been specialised for different mhealth applications
targeted at different clinical conditions to provide a variety of
telemonitoring and teletreatment services. Each specialization of the BAN
is equipped with a certain set of BAN devices and associated application
components as appropriate to the clinical application.
Despite the considerable R&D advances made in BAN and BAN service
platform development, current technology means that it is not convenient
for patients to tolerate wearing current generation BANs for long periods,
amongst others because they have to wear or carry and manage a collection
of different devices including a PDA or smart phone. However future and
emerging technologies such as Ambient Intelligent Environments enabled
by nano-technologies open the way for less obtrusive and more transparent
systems and services. We envision increasing miniaturization enabling the
“disappearing BAN��? or AmI-BAN, incorporating micro- and nano-scale
devices, processes and materials, possibly implanted, communicating with
the Ambient Intelligent Environment to provide cost-effective, unobtrusive,
pervasive, context aware services (eg. detection, diagnosis, monitoring,
treatment). Examples of some possible future AmI-BAN applications using
micro-, bio- and and nano-technologies are presented.
AB - At the University of Twente we have been researching mobile
healthcare applications since 1999. Since 2002 the University of Twente and
partners have been developing health Body Area Networks (BANs) and a
BAN service platform. We define a BAN as a network of communicating
devices worn on, around or in the body which provides mobile services to
the user. The BAN may also communicate to remote users such as
healthcare providers via external network services such as GPRS or UMTS.
The generic BAN has been specialised for different mhealth applications
targeted at different clinical conditions to provide a variety of
telemonitoring and teletreatment services. Each specialization of the BAN
is equipped with a certain set of BAN devices and associated application
components as appropriate to the clinical application.
Despite the considerable R&D advances made in BAN and BAN service
platform development, current technology means that it is not convenient
for patients to tolerate wearing current generation BANs for long periods,
amongst others because they have to wear or carry and manage a collection
of different devices including a PDA or smart phone. However future and
emerging technologies such as Ambient Intelligent Environments enabled
by nano-technologies open the way for less obtrusive and more transparent
systems and services. We envision increasing miniaturization enabling the
“disappearing BAN��? or AmI-BAN, incorporating micro- and nano-scale
devices, processes and materials, possibly implanted, communicating with
the Ambient Intelligent Environment to provide cost-effective, unobtrusive,
pervasive, context aware services (eg. detection, diagnosis, monitoring,
treatment). Examples of some possible future AmI-BAN applications using
micro-, bio- and and nano-technologies are presented.
KW - METIS-238664
KW - IR-66203
KW - EC Grant Agreement nr.: FP6/517352
KW - EWI-6156
M3 - Report
T3 - CTIT Technical Report Series
BT - From BAN to AmI-BAN
PB - Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT)
CY - Enschede
ER -