Computers and Biomedical Research
The wearable motherboard: a framework for personalized mobile information processing (PMIP)
Proceedings of the 39th annual Design Automation Conference
Challenges and opportunities in electronic textiles modeling and optimization
Proceedings of the 39th annual Design Automation Conference
Towards a design framework for wearable electronic textiles
ISWC '03 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers
MIThril 2003: Applications and Architecture
ISWC '03 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers
Ischemia detection with a self-organizing map supplemented by supervised learning
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
Adaptive Electrocardiogram Feature Extraction on Distributed Embedded Systems
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Low power light-weight embedded systems
Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
Cache-aware optimization of BAN applications
CODES+ISSS '08 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/Software codesign and system synthesis
S&D Pattern Deployment at Organizational Level: A Prototype for Remote Healthcare System
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
An automatic segmentation technique in body sensor networks based on signal energy
BodyNets '09 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Body Area Networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine - Special section on body sensor networks
Testing to certify an embedded software system
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Towards self-configuring evolvable FPGA using feedback cross-checking
KES'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part I
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In recent years, exciting technological advances have been made in development of flexible electronics. These technologies offer the opportunity to weave computation, communication and storage into the fabric of the every clothing that we wear, therefore, creating intelligent fabric. This paper presents a medical vest which has sensors for physiological readings and software-controlled, electrically-actuated trans-dermal drug delivery elements. Furthermore, computational elements are embedded in the vest for collecting data from sensors, processing them and driving actuation elements. Since this vest will be used for medical, life-critical applications, the single most critical requirement of such a vest is an extremely high level of robustness and fault tolerance. Meantime, the key technological constraint for these mobile systems is their power consumption. Our target application for our medical vest is the detection of possibly fatal heart problems, specifically unstable angina pectoris or ischemia. We illustrate the design stages of our medical vest as well as the technical details of both software and network reconfiguration schemes (to enhance the robustness and the performance of our system). We also discuss the details of ischemia detection algorithm employed in our vest. Moreover, we evaluate the robustness of our system with existence of various faults. Finally we measure the performance of our algorithm as well the power consumption of several configurations of our vest.