A Low-Power, Battery-Free Tag for Body Sensor Networks

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Mandal, Soumyajit; Turicchia, Lorenzo; Sarpeshkar, Rahul
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Abstract
A new tag for pervasive sensing applications consists of a custom integrated circuit, an antenna for radio frequency energy harvesting, and sensors for monitoring physiological parameters. This paper presents a wearable tag design that can monitor multiple signals. The tag generates an alarm when it suspects a patient emergency. To quickly cover a large portion of the population at risk, we kept the tag affordable (less than US$2 each when manufactured in volume), disposable, small, and easy to use. Such tags would be useful for hospitals, facilities for infants and the elderly, and ordinary homes to detect and alert caregivers to possible problems including SCA and SIDS.
Date issued
2010-03
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61413
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
Journal
IEEE pervasive computing
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ; IEEE Computer Society
Citation
Mandal, S., L. Turicchia, and R. Sarpeshkar. “A Low-Power, Battery-Free Tag for Body Sensor Networks.” Pervasive Computing, IEEE 9.1 (2010): 71-77. © 2010, IEEE
Version: Final published version
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INSPEC Accession Number: 11049383
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1536-1268
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