Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are commonly considered as a key enabling technology for ambient assisted living (AAL) and smart home services. Essential requirements for this kind of applications are: small node size, long lifetime, little invasiveness and reliable communication over a range of few tens of meters even in presence of obstacles. For this reason, in this paper a low-cost WSN node architecture for body fall detection is presented. Our node is partially inspired to the well-known TelosB/Tmote Sky so as to maintain full software compatibility with TinyOS, but it is highly optimized in size, it is equipped with a chip antenna with better performance than the typical inverted-F printed one and it is powered by a compact high-capacity lithium-ion polymer rechargeable battery. Several experimental results confirm that the node lifetime may exceed one week of operation in the expected working conditions.
A Wearable Wireless Sensor Node for Body Fall Detection / Pivato, Paolo; Dalpez, Stefano; Macii, David; Petri, Dario. - ELETTRONICO. - (2011), pp. 116-121. ((Intervento presentato al convegno M&N 2011 tenutosi a Anacapri nel 10-11 October 2011 [10.1109/IWMN.2011.6088492].
Titolo: | A Wearable Wireless Sensor Node for Body Fall Detection | |
Autori: | Pivato, Paolo; Dalpez, Stefano; Macii, David; Petri, Dario | |
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Titolo del volume contenente il saggio: | 2011 IEEE International Workshop on Measurements & Networking (M&N 2011) Proceedings | |
Luogo di edizione: | Piscataway, NJ, U.S.A. | |
Casa editrice: | IEEE | |
Anno di pubblicazione: | 2011 | |
Codice identificativo Scopus: | 2-s2.0-83755173961 | |
ISBN: | 9781457704574 | |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11572/88565 | |
Citazione: | A Wearable Wireless Sensor Node for Body Fall Detection / Pivato, Paolo; Dalpez, Stefano; Macii, David; Petri, Dario. - ELETTRONICO. - (2011), pp. 116-121. ((Intervento presentato al convegno M&N 2011 tenutosi a Anacapri nel 10-11 October 2011 [10.1109/IWMN.2011.6088492]. | |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 04.1 Saggio in atti di convegno (Paper in Proceedings) |
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