Integrating wireless EEGs into medical sensor networks
Behçet Sarikaya, Md. Abdul Alim, Siamak Rezaei · 2006
Wireless Electroencephalograms (EEG) are currently being used to wirelessly transmit the data from brain sensors to a computer and they carry huge potential for many future medical applications. This paper presents the design of a hy-brid medical sensor network with Tmote Sky motes as wire-less EEG sensor nodes at the lowest level collecting EEG signals and sending them to Stargate PDAs at the next level. Stargates perform artifact removal, Fourier transfor-mation and feature extraction and the final machine intelli-gence algorithms are run at a PC server. Several features of the CodeBlue medical sensor network like query processing, routing layer are used in our design. The advantages of the hybrid medical sensor network integrating wireless EEGs include the capability to have the brain monitoring func-tionality incorporated into the medical sensor networks. ACM Classification