Human++: Emerging technology for body area networks

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 249, Issue , 2008, Pages 377-397

  Penders, Julien ^a   Gyselinckx, Bert ^a   Vullers, Ruud ^a   Rousseaux, Olivier ^a   Berekovic, Mladen ^a   De Nil, Michael ^b   Hoof, Chris ^c   Ryckaert, Julien ^c   Yazicioglu, Refet Firat ^c   Fiorini, Paolo ^c   Leonov, Vladimir ^c  

^a HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Autonomous; BAN; Integration; Microsystem; Wireless

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION; MICROSYSTEMS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); RADIO; RESEARCH; APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; THREE DIMENSIONAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

AUTONOMOUS; AUTONOMOUS SENSORS; BAN; BODY AREA NETWORK; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; ENERGY SCAVENGING; LOW-POWER DESIGN; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; LOW POWER DESIGN TECHNIQUE;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS;

EID: 36448997401     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-74909-9_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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