HUMAN AREA NETWORKS

By:

G.BHAVANI
19P71A0523
 HUMAN AREA NETWORKS

Human Area Networking is a technology that safely turns the

surface of the human body into data transmission paths at speeds
up to 10 Mbps between any two points on the body.
 HISTORY OF HAN

 The concept of intra-body communication was

first proposed by IBM in 1996.
This communication mechanism was later
evaluated and reported by several research groups
around the world.
All those reported technologies had two
limitations…
 LIMITATIONS…

The operating range through the body was limited to a few tens
of centimeters.
The top communication speed was only about 40 bits/s !!

These limitations were overcome by NTT (Nippon Telegraph

and Telephone Corporation) located in Tokyo, Japan and finally
came up with a human area networking technology called
‘REDTACTON’.
 WHAT IS ?

RedTacton is a new Human Area Networking technology that

turns the surface of human body as a safe, high speed network
transmission path.

RedTacton takes a different technical approach. Instead of relying on

electromagnetic waves or light waves to carry data, it uses weak
electric fields on the surface of the body as a transmission medium.
 PRINCIPLE…

RedTacton relies upon the principle that the

optical properties of an electro-optic crystal can
vary according to the changes of a weak electric
field.
RedTacton detects these changes using a laser and
converts it to an electric signal in an optical
receiver unit circuit.
MECHANISM OF COMMUNICATION WITH

The naturally occurring electric

field induced on the surface of the
human body dissipates into the
earth. Therefore, this electric field
is exceptionally faint and unstable.
The photonic electric field sensor
developed by NTT enables weak
electric fields to be measured by
detecting changes in the optical
properties of an electro-optic
crystal with a laser beam.
 Transceiver

Figure shows a photograph of the RedTacton transceiver connected to a PDA and a

block diagram of the RedTacton transceiver developed by NTT.
 FEATURES OF

RedTacton has three main functional features…

EXPERIMENTS ON HUMAN
BODY
 HUMAN SAFETY

The transmitting and receiving electrodes of the

RedTacton transceiver are completely covered with
insulating film, so the body of the person acting as
the transmission medium is completely insulated.
This makes it impossible for current to flow into a
person’s body from the transceiver.
 COMPARISON WITH OTHER
NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES

Evaluation Criteria Wireless Infrared/ RedTacton

LAN Bluetooth
Transfer Speed
(Can DVD quality images E P E
can be sent)
Performance deterioration
during periods of
congestion (Simultaneous P E E
use by many people in
small places)
Duplex Data Transfer E E E
(Interactive Processing)

Performance: Excellent (E)Poor (P)

APPLICATIONS…

An Alarm sounds automatically to

avoid accidental medicine
ingestion

Touch advertising and receive

information
APPLICATIONS…

Touch printer to print

Instantaneous private
network via personal
handshake
 APPLICATIONS…

Connect to the network just by

putting a laptop on the table Potential for use as
communication method in outer
space and under water
 SECURITY APPLICATIONS…

User verification and

unlocking with a Automatic access log
touch for confidential
document storage
 DRAWBACKS

Too costly.
It has no compelling applications which
aren’t available.
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