Wireless personal area networks in telemedical environment

Presents a new design of a wireless personal area network with physiological sensors for medical applications in a telemedical environment. Intelligent wireless sensors perform data acquisition and limited processing. Individual sensors monitor specific physiological signals (such as EEG, EGG, GSR, etc.) and communicate with each other and the personal server. The personal server integrates information from different sensors and communicates with the rest of the telemedical system as a standard mobile unit. The authors present their prototype implementation of the wireless intelligent sensor (WISE) based on a very low power consumption microcontroller and a DSP-based personal server. In future the authors expect all components of WISE to be integrated in a single chip for use in a variety of new medical applications and sophisticated human computer interfaces.