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Project IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless
Personal Area Networks (WPANs) Submission Title
Applications of Body Area Network Date
Submitted 14 March, 2008 Source Chunhui
Zhu, Huai-Rong Shao, Xiangping (Sandra) Qin
Company Samsung Electronics Address 75 W.
Plumeria Dr. San Jose, CA 95131,
USA Voice1-408-544-5667, FAX
1-408-544-5667, E-Mailc.zhu_at_samsung.com Re
15-08-0069-01-0006-call-for-application-tg6 A
bstract This document is a response to
call-for-application of TG6. Purpose For
consideration as applications of Body Area
Network. Notice This document has been prepared
to assist the IEEE P802.15. It is offered as a
basis for discussion and is not binding on the
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Applications of Body Area Network

• Chunhui Zhu
• Samsung Electronics

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Outline

• Application Categories
• Application Scenarios
• On The Road
• At Home
• At Work
• In the Car
• Anywhere
• BAN and Its Long-Term Potential
• Ubiquitous Health Care
• Beyond Five Senses
• Fashion and Wearable Technology
• Portable 3D and Virtual World Applications
• Wearable Computer and New HCI Devices

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Application Categories

• Applications in terms of Message Types
• Sensory data
• Regular data files
• Real-time, streaming audio signals
• Real-time, streaming video signals
• Positioning and location information

• Application in terms of Industries
• Medical, Fitness and Health Care
• Consumer Electronics
• Personal Computers
• Defense/Emergency services
• Sports

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Application Scenarios

• On The Road
• At Home
• Entertainment
• Networking
• At Work
• In the Car
• Anywhere

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On the Road (1/2)

• Connecting PC and CE products
• Interconnect all portable devices one would
  carry.
• Central devices
• UMPC, wearable display, headset/headphone
• Connection type
• Mostly portable to portable device to form a BAN
• Examples
• When on the road, such as in subway, bus or
  airplane, BAN allows one to form a network in
  his/her vicinity. For instants, a PMP, a
  headphone and a wearable display can form a
  personal Body Area Theater.
• In many case, the portable devices can share
  their I/O devices. For instants, the MP3 player
  and the cell phone can share the same headset.

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On the Road (2/2)
The major application of BAN is to connect all
wireless portable devices locally to form a
self-sufficient network around human body.
Devices within a BAN can then share resources
such as processing power, storage space and
Internet connectivity.
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At Home Entertainment (1/2)

• Connecting A/V products
• Central devices
• Big-screen TV
• Home theater system
• Connection type
• Portable to portable device
• Portable to stationary device
• Examples
• Streaming AV signal from portable devices to
  external big displays and audio systems.
• Show pictures stored in DC to big screen TV
• Playback video clips stored in UMPC, PMP,
  camcorder on big screen TV and home theater
  system
• Playback MP3 stored in MP3 players in home audio
  systems
• Make 3G video calls using big screen TV and home
  audio systems.

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At Home Entertainment (2/2)
3G Mobile Phone
MP3 Player
DC
Home Theater System
TV
UMPC
Game Console
PMP
Camcorder
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At Home Networking (1/2)

• Connecting PC and CE products
• Sync portable devices to home PC systems.
• Central devices
• Home PC or server
• Printer and Scanner
• Connection type
• Mostly portable to stationary device
• Examples
• Transfer image and video clips taken by digital
  camera, cell phone and camcorder to home PC
  systems
• Transfer audio and video files from PC to PMP and
  MP3 players.
• Backup and restore files between digital camera,
  UMPC, PMP, MP3 and other devices to removable
  storage devices
• Connect BAN-enable wireless keyboard to PC, UMPC,
  and smart phone and PDA.

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At Home Networking (2/2)
3G Mobile Phone / Mobile TV
MP3 Player
Removable Storage
Printer
DC
UMPC
Game Console
PMP
Camcorder
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At Work (1/2)

• Connecting PC and CE products
• Integrating PC, communication and CE devices to
  make a more productive office environment.
• Central devices
• Office PC
• Connection type
• Mostly portable to stationary device
• Examples
• Use office PC as a gateway to allow portable
  devices to connect to the Internet
• Connect your laptop PC to the projector in the
  meeting room
• Connect your desktop telephone to your PC so that
  you can make and answer phone calls using either
  device.
• For example, you find a contact in the address
  book in your PC. You click on the contact, your
  phone then makes the call for you automatically.
• As another example, your phone rings while you
  are listening to the music. Your PC pop-up a
  window telling who is calling. Instead of picking
  up the phone, you answer the call by clicking the
  button on your PC screen and using your headset.
• You sync your Smartphone or PDA to your PC
  through BAN connection.

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At Work (2/2)
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In the Car

• Connect portable devices to car stereo and
  control system
• Monitor your health condition for a safe drive,
  e.g. allow the car to generate an alarm if the
  driver become sleepy or drunk.
• Transmit personal profile to the car such as
  seat, mirror and steering wheel positions.
• The car transmits driving statistics and
  maintenance data to the BAN.
• Destination can be transferred from the
  smartphone contact database to the car GPS
  system.
• The GPS Map and car data can be displayed in the
  glasses (HUD like)
• Play music in stored in MP3 players through car
  stereo system.

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Anywhere

• Positioning and personal item tracking.

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BAN and Its Long-Term Potential

• BAN will be able to support, directly or
  indirectly, the following business and technology
  trends.
• Ubiquitous Health Care
• Beyond Five Senses
• Augmented sensing capability by body sensors
• Fashion and Wearable Technology
• Portable 3D and Virtual World Applications
• Wearable Computer and New HCI Devices

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Ubiquitous Health Care (1/3)

• Body Senor Network
• Bedside monitoring
• Implantable medical devices
• Swallowable devices for drug delivery and imaging
• Wearable sensors, such as EEG, ECG, blood
  pressure, body temperature,
• Hearing aids
• Elderly and Disabled People Care
• Glucose level monitor
• Wellness/Fitness Monitoring
• Heart rate, respiration monitoring
• Temperature sensor
• Pacing information

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Ubiquitous Health Care (2/3)

• The aging of population is another fact that is
  happening in many countries.
• In US and European countries, retired parents
  usually dont live with children. A system that
  can continuously monitor the health condition of
  elder people and share information with remote
  children or hospital will have great market.
• As an effort of catching this trend, Microsoft
  has rolled out its free service on the web on
  Personal Health Records that allow patients to
  collect and share their health data and allow
  doctors to access this data.
• BAN is the best technology for collecting this
  kind of health information.

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Ubiquitous Health Care (3/3)
With this convenient way, elderly people can know
their health condition without frequent doctor
visits. Meanwhile, doctors can still access the
data and give their patients advises base on
their data.

Blood pressure gets back to normal.
Blood pressure gets too high.
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Beyond Five Senses Augmented Senses

• We human being perceive and interact with outside
  world through sight, sound, smell, taste and
  touch.
• With body sensors and BAN, we can
• Extend our five senses. For example, with
  infrared sensor or small camera on our backs, we
  can sense whether there are malicious people
  hiding in the dark or following us at night.
• Create new sensing capabilities we have never
  had. For example, with GPS or other positioning
  systems, we can find local information not only
  through our eyes and ears, but also through these
  positioning information and database.

• BAN enables the sharing of sensed information or
  received positioning information among all
  devices in the network. Therefore the information
  can be processed by any wearable devices and
  hence provide us more value added information.
• BAN not only allow us to know ourselves better
  (through body sensors for health monitoring), but
  also know our environment better.

The LifeClipper Project
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Fashion and Wearable Technology

• One of the major trends in the fashion industry
  is clearly the convergence of fashion and
  wearable electronic device, the so-called
  "Wearable Technologies.
• It was predicted that within the next 10 years we
  could see 20 of garments with electronic
  components in them (prediction made in 2003).
• The ISPO 2007 Summer show in Munich, Germany was
  a good demonstration of the trend. The event is
  the world's biggest trade show for sporting goods
  and showcases the latest trends and fashions for
  sports enthusiasts.
• This trend strongly indicates the advent of the
  wearable era and BAN can play a big role
  connecting these devices wirelessly.

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3D, Virtual World Game and BAN

• 3D display and virtual world technology are also
  among important emerging technologies.
• Portable devices nowadays can run 3D games and
  display 3D contents on their screens.
• One big application in this domain is 3D gaming
  using portable devices, such as cell phones.
• To control or interact with virtual world games,
  many non-conventional human-computer interface
  devices have been developed, such as gesture
  recognition devices or sensor-equipped devices
  like WII controller.
• BAN provides a perfect method to connect these
  HCI devices to cell phones.

Samsung B710 is able to display 3D images
Nokia N93 is able to play 3D games
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Wearable Computer and BAN (1/3)

• The vision
• a mobile computer should not just be a machine
  that we put into our pocket when we plan on doing
  some office work while on the road.
• Instead, it will be an integral part of our every
  day outfit (hence wearable), always operational
  and equipped to assist us in dealing with a wide
  range of situations.
• The Definition of Wearable Computer
• A wearable computer is a computer that is
  subsumed into the personal space of the user,
  controlled by the user, and has both operational
  and interactional constancy, i.e. is always on
  and always accessible. Most notably, it is a
  device that is always with the user, and into
  which the user can always enter commands and
  execute a set of such entered commands, and in
  which the user can do so while walking around or
  doing other activities.
• - by Steve Mann, May 12, 1998

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Wearable Computer and BAN (2/3)
Ubiquitous Computing

• The Evolution of Computer Platform

Wearable PCs
Personal Computing
Enterprise Computing
Mainframes
Mini-computers
Notebooks
Desktop PCs
Handhelds
Wearable computing has the potential to be the
next stage of the computing revolution. The
'wearable revolution' could well influence on our
lives as profoundly as the emergence of the PC
and the Internet.
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Wearable Computer and BAN (3/3)

• Challenges of Wearable Computer
• The main issues on the way to a truly wearable
  computer are
• adequate miniaturized input devices,
• unobtrusive, see through displays with high
  resolution and low power consumption,
• a user interface that is adequate for augmented
  reality wearable applications,
• compact, low power computer systems capable of
  dealing with the high signal processing and
  graphics load encountered in wearable computing,
  
• miniaturized sensors,
• a wireless network technology for the
  interconnection of the wearable components
  distributed over the users body (body area
  network)

BAN can help removing these cables.
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Thank You !