Human++: Key challenges and trade-offs in embedded system design for personal health care

Proceedings - 2011 14th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools, DSD 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4-10

  De Groot, Harmke ^a   Ashouei, Maryam ^a   Penders, Julien ^a   Pop, Valer ^a   Vidojkovic, Maja ^a   Gyselinckx, Bert ^a   Yazicioglu, Firat ^b  

^a HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Battery life time optimization; Body area networks; Embedded system design; Personal health care; Sensor network; Sensor nodes; Ultra low power design

Indexed keywords

BATTERY LIFE TIME; BODY AREA NETWORK; CIRCUIT TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER INTERACTION; HOME ENVIRONMENT; IMPLANTABLE SENSORS; LOWER COST; MANY BODY; NEW COMPONENTS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERSONAL HEALTH CARE; PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SMALL FORM FACTORS; SYSTEM OPTIMIZATIONS; ULTRA-LOW POWER DESIGN; ULTRA-THIN;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; EMBEDDED SOFTWARE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OPTIMIZATION; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

DESIGN;

EID: 80054974594     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSD.2011.115     Document Type: Conference Paper

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