Implant and In-Body Communications: The ETSI SmartBAN Vision

Implant and In-Body Communications: The ETSI SmartBAN Vision

연구 분야: Infrastructure

학회: EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks

In this review, we envisioned how the new ETSI SmartBAN wireless technology for smart body area networks can be utilised in implant and in-body communications. The use cases can be links, for example, between in-body medical devices (IMDs) such as wireless capsule endoscopes and their on-body counterpart, or between smart implants, in general. First, we briefly introduced the current trends of implant and in-body communications and showed some application examples of IMDs utilised in in-body wireless communications. The advantage of in-body ultra wideband communications was then discussed to highlight the ETSI SmartBAN approach for in-body communications standardisation.