BSN in Harsh Environments

Experts in BSN discuss the challenges and opportunities in wireless sensing in harsh environments.

 At the recent annual conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN) held in Dallas, 23-25 May, Texas, USA experts in BSN discussed the challenges and opportunities in wireless sensing in harsh environments. The panel members include Dr. Srinath Hosur from Texas Instruments Inc and Professor Ravi Prakash from University of Texas, Dallas, and the panel was chaired by Professor Guang-Zhong Yang of The Hamlyn Centre.

Dr. Hosur presented the potential challenges in applying sensing technologies in applications under harsh environments. Professor Prakash gave an insight of the challenges encountered in terms of wireless interference in dense area. Professor Yang shared with the audience the motivation and recent success of the ESPRIT  project in developing pervasive sensing technologies for sports applications.

The BSN conference is an annual conference aims to address the fast-growing BSN research field, and offers participants a unique forum to discuss key issues and innovative solutions in current BSN research.  Key issues addressed by the conference each year include:

• Networking, security and wireless communications
• Networking, security and wireless communications
• Smart fabrics and wearables">Smart fabrics and wearables
• Lower power electronics, power sources and energy harvesting
• Medical applications
• Sport and leisure applications
• BSN architecture and platforms
• Sensor technology and biocompatibility
• Home monitoring and assisted living applications
• Debugging, and testing of BSN platforms and applications
• Clinical trials and experiences of BSN platforms
• Novel BSN platforms and applications in non-medical domains

The BSN2011 conference proceedings is published by IEEE Computer Society Press.