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The Intel® Mote platform: a Bluetooth-based sensor network for industrial monitoring
IPSN '05 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
Investigating network architectures for body sensor networks
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGMOBILE international workshop on Systems and networking support for healthcare and assisted living environments
Link layer behavior of body area networks at 2.4 GHz
Proceedings of the 15th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Challenges to building Bluetooth-based sensing solutions
BodyNets '09 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Body Area Networks
A multifrequency MAC specially designed for wireless sensor network applications
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
Using ambient intelligence for physiological monitoring
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
Passive discovery of IEEE 802.15.4-based body sensor networks
Ad Hoc Networks
Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Workshop on Quality of Service
Adaptive and Radio-Agnostic QoS for Body Sensor Networks
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
Accelerometer-based on-body sensor localization for health and medical monitoring applications
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Understanding Link Behavior of Non-intrusive Wireless Body Sensor Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Using ambient intelligence for physiological monitoring
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
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The last few years have seen the emergence of many applications such as wellness, chronic disease management and assisted living that require pervasive sensing of people and the environment. Many of these applications require on-body sensing of various parameters including heart-rate, caloric burn, activity, temperature, etc. Low power wireless technologies are a key enabler for these applications, as it allows distributed sensing and aggregation without the cost of wiring the individual. Bluetooth is a well established low power wireless technology and has the advantage of being integrated into many handheld devices today whereas IEEE 802.15.4 has gained momentum in wireless sensor networks over the last few years due to its low power and cost. The performance of these radios in the context of WSN applications has been explored and published in numerous papers. However there hasn't been a lot of work exploring the effect of the human body on the performance of these radios. We have designed and conducted experiments on multiple people to measure the effect of the human body on the performance of Bluetooth and IEEE 802.15.4. We have explored different activities (sitting, standing and walking) as well as many sensor locations (ear, chest, waist, knee and ankle). Finally we explored the co-existence of both of these radios. In this paper, we present the results of these experiments and provide a detailed analysis of the suitability of these radios for body area networks.