Investigation of Signal Strength Level Between Sensor and Sink in Wireless Body Area Network

Lina Narbutaite, Liudas Mazeika, Dwivedi Pawan Kumar, Pratha Umesh Mehta

The rapid advances of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has empowered the development of several application fields. Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) is an example of ICT system applications used in medical areas. Combining sensors and wireless communication technology, wireless body area network (WBAN) is one of the most promising fields. One important aspect of wearable health monitoring devices and WBAN is their wireless connectivity. Several technologies can be considered to provide connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth for local connectivity, cellular interface (2-5G) for mobile access. In this article, we mainly focus on from the website. There are several wireless technologies such as Low power WiFi, Bluetooth, ZigBee and IEEE 802.15.6. In this paper we have analysed experimental evaluation of the signal propagation between sensor and sink according to sensor position on human body and transmission environment using Bluetooth. According to these data was defined the best working performance zones for our WBAN system.