8th International Conference on Body Area Networks

Research Article

Signal Analysis of Wearable Transmitter for Intra-body Communication

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253531,
        author={Ryo Sugiyama and Yuki Hayashida and Jun Katsuyama and Kazuki Matsumoto and Yusuke Ido and Mitsuru Shinagawa and Yuichi Kado},
        title={Signal Analysis of Wearable Transmitter for Intra-body Communication},
        proceedings={8th International Conference on Body Area Networks},
        publisher={ICST},
        proceedings_a={BODYNETS},
        year={2013},
        month={10},
        keywords={intra-body communication wearable computer human body ubiquitous computing},
        doi={10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253531}
    }
    
  • Ryo Sugiyama
    Yuki Hayashida
    Jun Katsuyama
    Kazuki Matsumoto
    Yusuke Ido
    Mitsuru Shinagawa
    Yuichi Kado
    Year: 2013
    Signal Analysis of Wearable Transmitter for Intra-body Communication
    BODYNETS
    ACM
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253531
Ryo Sugiyama1,*, Yuki Hayashida1, Jun Katsuyama1, Kazuki Matsumoto1, Yusuke Ido1, Mitsuru Shinagawa1, Yuichi Kado2
  • 1: Hosei University
  • 2: Kyoto Institute of Technology
*Contact email: ryo.sugiyama.6p@stu.hosei.ac.jp

Abstract

We propose a signal channel model that involves using a wearable transmitter for an intra-body communication system. The impedance components regarding the wearable transmitter were added to our previous noise channel model to construct new model. The transmitting voltage through the human body was measured at the embedded electrodes by using a spectrum analyzer and compared with the circuit simulation. We found that the impedance components between the human body and the embedded electrodes agree with experimental results. However, the experimental results from between the wearable transmitter and human body differ from those of the circuit simulation. This means that the capacitance between the wearable transmitter and human body should be measured precisely.