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http://hdl.handle.net/1843/76709| Type: | Artigo de Periódico |
| Title: | A low-cost electronic system for human-body communication |
| Authors: | Adriano Vale-Cardoso Mariana Moreira Kristtopher Kayo Coelho Alex Vieira Aldri Santos Michele Nogueira Lima José Augusto M. Nacif |
| Abstract: | Human-body communication (HBC) has increasingly gained attention from academia and industry. Most current works focus on characterizing the use of human-body tissues as a physical medium to enable reliable communication. However, designing coupling hardware and communication circuits for reliable data transmission (e.g., high throughput and low latency) is a demanding task, especially for achieving a compact full electronic implementation. For this purpose, there are few commercial devices, mainly differential probes and balun transformers, employed with electrical analysis instruments such as oscilloscopes and vector network analyzers. Although these devices are widely used, they are expensive and are difficult to miniaturize and integrate into real-world HBC-specific applications (e.g., data security). This article presents a low-cost electronic system that transfers collected data using a secondary channel: the ionic environment (the primary channel would be the wireless environment). We design an electronic system as an experimental setup for studying HBC, allowing the communication between instruments, sensors, and actuators by human-body tissues. The experimental evaluation of the proposed system follows (i) a phantom composed of saline (0.9%) and (ii) a real human forearm through adhesive surface electrodes. |
| Subject: | Circuitos digitais Redes de comunicação Corpo humano |
| language: | eng |
| metadata.dc.publisher.country: | Brasil |
| Publisher: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
| Publisher Initials: | UFMG |
| metadata.dc.publisher.department: | ICX - DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIA DA COMPUTAÇÃO |
| Rights: | Acesso Aberto |
| metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | 10.3390/electronics9111928 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1843/76709 |
| Issue Date: | 2020 |
| metadata.dc.url.externa: | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/9/11/1928 |
| metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Electronics |
| Appears in Collections: | Artigo de Periódico |
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| Low-Cost Electronic System for Human-Body Communication.pdf | 5.42 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
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