Analysis Of Intra-Body Communication Using Personal Area Networks

Intra-body Communication using Personal Area Network

Abstract

Intra-body communication is a "wireless" communication technique that enables electronic devices on or near the human body to exchange the information. For this the characteristics of the human body are studied. The human body acts as a signal transmission medium and it uses the dielectric properties of human tissues for data exchange which covers frequency range from 100 KHz to 150MHz. Transmitting data directly through the skin can be much more beneficial than current wireless transmission technologies such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi as it will utilize less power. In this paper the concept of Personal Area Networks is presented to demonstrate how electronic devices which are on and
So majority of people uses wireless devices as well a person can access multiple devices at same time. This increased propagation of devices necessitate a technique to communicate between these heterogeneous devices. In these wireless devices power consumption was a major issue. So numerous efforts have been taken to reduce power consumption. As well various communication protocols were developed for long rang and short range wireless communication. Such as Bluetooth, Zigbee, wireless LAN etc. among these methods INTRABODY communication is a new method developed to connect mobile devices on and inside the human body. This technique uses the human body as a signal transmission medium. Fig. IBC has the characteristics of high transmission quality, high data rate, high security, easy network access, no communication bandwidth problem and the size of these devices are becoming small enough due to which they can carry or even wear various personal information. So there must be a possibility of communication between electronic devices on the human body by using personal area network. In this paper we have discussed different types of IBC which were used for intra body transmission such as 1. The simple circuit 2. Electrostatic coupling 3.
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