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What is Body Area Network (BAN)

Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services
This is a technology for permanent monitoring and logging of vital signs for supervising the health status of the patients for various chronic diseases with the sensors on human body.
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A Survey on Health Care Services Using Wireless Sensor Networks
Sunilkumar S. Manvi (REVA Institute of Technology and Management, India) and Manjula R. B. (Manjula R. B.REVA Institute of Technology and Management, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch031
Abstract
Although the present technology has aided in development of high-technology-based disease detection machines, potential medicines and devices, the well-being of the individual remains a challenge. Human beings are struggling to control diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, asthma, hypertension, insomnia, heart disease, and diabetes due to non-availability of patient’s real-time data for comprehensive study and analysis. Smart health centre environments represent the evolutionary developmental step towards intelligent health care. The Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) with pervasive and ubiquitous computing may be a solution for this predicament. WSNs are a key technology for ambient assisted living. The concept of WSN is used to measure the various health parameters like blood pressure, blood clot, allergy, ECG, cholesterol, RBCs, etc. In this chapter, the authors highlight the importance of WSNs with respect to health care services and discuss some of its challenging applications for diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, asthma, and heart disease. They delineate the challenges that researchers face in this area that may lead to future research.
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Fundamental Principles of IoT
BAN is the wearable computing system; it can be positioned in a specific location in the human body or surface mounted on the human. The growing interest in wearable devices like glasses, watches have contributed to an increased focus on wireless networking. To apply to the wireless network infrastructure used in conjunction with wearable, the term BAN was coined. The main purpose of these networks is to transmit data produced by wearable devices outside to a WLAN or the Internet. In some scenarios, wearables can also exchange the data directly with each other.
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Mobility in Healthcare: M-Health
BAN is the network of medical sensors/devices worn by patient that collects biological data about the patient.
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The Use of Body Area Networks and Radio Frequency Identification in Healthcare
A collection of portable devices that are placed on or in the body to monitor a user’s health. These devices may be sensors, actuators, or data processing (aggregators). BAN devices are typically designed to be small and wearable or implantable.
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The Rise of mHealth Research in Europe: A Macroscopic Analysis of EC-Funded Projects of the Last Decade
A body area network (BAN) or a body sensor network (BSN) or a wireless body area network (WBAN) can be defined as a system of low power devices/sensors in close proximity to the body of the user that cooperate using a wireless network for the benefit of the subject/end user. The devices may be wearable, implants, etc., and through gateway devices, it is possible to connect them to the Internet and transmit data to a local base station and remote places. A WBAN system can use WPAN wireless technologies as gateways to reach longer ranges. In the medical sector, they are used to help medical professionals to monitor patients’ data and activities remotely.
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Perspectives on the Viable Mobile Virtual Community for Telemedicine
A BAN is a network of devices around the body, consisting of multiple devices such as sensors and a gateway device.
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