WIRELESS BODY AREA SENSOR

NETWORK FOR POSTURE

DETECTION
Sumi K C
S7CS
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INTRODUCTION
 Body Area Network
 Makes use of user postures to implement alternate input
system
 Must be fast and real-time

 Flexibility
WIMOCA
 Distributed Posture Recognition Application
 Sensors are represented by Triaxial Integrated MEMS
accelerometers
 Use accelerometers to detect postures and gestures

 Nodes are mounted on human body and are connected to

a base station
 Base station acts as a gateway that connects network to a
PC
WBASN ARCHITECTURE
 Wearable
 Low-power

 Modular Architecture

Fig 1 WiMOCA System Structure

WBASN ARCHITECTURE
 Three sections
 MCU/Sensors
 RF
 Power Supply
 Microcontroller
 ATMega 8bit controller
 AVR RISC architecture

 MEMS Tri-axial accelerometer

 Maximum Power 15mW and minimum 1μW
 RF
 Operates at 800MHz
WBASN ARCHITECTURE
 Star Topology
 WiMoCA nodes are the endpoints
 Nodes are responsible for sensing and acquiring data
 Gateway performs bridging functions

Fig 2 Node Structure