Signal Loss in Body Coupled Communication: Guide for Accurate Measurements

Juris Ormanis; Vladislavs Medvedevs; Valters Abolins; Gatis Gaigals; Atis Elsts

doi:10.1109/CPS-IoTBench56135.2022.00011

Signal Loss in Body Coupled Communication: Guide for Accurate Measurements

Juris Ormanis, Vladislavs Medvedevs, Valters Abolins, Gatis Gaigals, Atis Elsts

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Abstract

Body Coupled Communication (BCC) is a growing research area that promises to deliver more secure and more energy-efficient body-area wireless sensor networks. Existing research articles on BCC show high variance in their experimental results, indicating potential methodological problems in the published work. We perform analysis of several potential methodological errors in the measurements, for instance, impedance mismatch, cable length issues, and not separating the ground planes. Our experimental results quantify the impact of these issues. Finally, we discuss the best practices for measurements, as well as their limitations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings 5th Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things, CPS-IoTBench 2022
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	22-27
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665470384
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CPS-IoTBench56135.2022.00011
Publication status	Published - 2022
Externally published	Yes
Event	5th Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things, CPS-IoTBench 2022 - online, Italy Duration: 3 May 2022 → 3 May 2022 Conference number: 5 https://www.iotbench.ethz.ch/cps-iotbench-2022/

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Name	Proceedings - 5th Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things, CPS-IoTBench 2022

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Workshop	5th Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things, CPS-IoTBench 2022
Country/Territory	Italy
Period	3/05/22 → 3/05/22
Internet address	https://www.iotbench.ethz.ch/cps-iotbench-2022/

Keywords*

body area networks
body-coupled communication
human body communication
measurements
signal loss

Field of Science*

1.2 Computer and information sciences
3.3 Health sciences

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3.1. Articles or chapters in proceedings/scientific books indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database

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Ormanis, J., Medvedevs, V., Abolins, V., Gaigals, G., & Elsts, A. (2022). Signal Loss in Body Coupled Communication: Guide for Accurate Measurements. In Proceedings 5th Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things, CPS-IoTBench 2022 (pp. 22-27). (Proceedings - 5th Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things, CPS-IoTBench 2022). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/CPS-IoTBench56135.2022.00011

Ormanis, Juris ; Medvedevs, Vladislavs ; Abolins, Valters et al. / Signal Loss in Body Coupled Communication : Guide for Accurate Measurements. Proceedings 5th Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things, CPS-IoTBench 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022. pp. 22-27 (Proceedings - 5th Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things, CPS-IoTBench 2022).

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Ormanis, J, Medvedevs, V, Abolins, V, Gaigals, G & Elsts, A 2022, Signal Loss in Body Coupled Communication: Guide for Accurate Measurements. in Proceedings 5th Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things, CPS-IoTBench 2022. Proceedings - 5th Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things, CPS-IoTBench 2022, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 22-27, 5th Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things, CPS-IoTBench 2022, Italy, 3/05/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/CPS-IoTBench56135.2022.00011

Signal Loss in Body Coupled Communication: Guide for Accurate Measurements. / Ormanis, Juris; Medvedevs, Vladislavs; Abolins, Valters et al.
Proceedings 5th Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things, CPS-IoTBench 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022. p. 22-27 (Proceedings - 5th Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things, CPS-IoTBench 2022).

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Signal Loss in Body Coupled Communication: Guide for Accurate Measurements

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