Standardizing Smart Body Area Networks

ETSI TC SmartBAN is a European Standards Organization Technical Committee that was created in 2013 for developing and maintaining an ETSI standard and specification, reports, guides, etc., relating to smart, wireless Body Area Networks (BANs). It addresses everything related to BANs in a holistic way, from tiny medical sensors located inside/on the body to remote end-user devices (e.g., hospital medical information system (MISs), caregivers’ tablets and smartphones) as well as from physical (PHY) and medium-access control (MAC) layersup to application layers. The addressed verticals are currently mainly related to eHealth, wellbeing/wellness, and personal safety, but other use cases related to other markets such as automotive are also envisioned. Figure 1 below presents an example of a considered ETSI SmartBAN end-to-end environment. Figure-1_ETSI-SmartBAN-considered-end-to-end-environment.jpg   ETSI SmartBAN has recently published ETSI TS 103 327, a standard for Smart Body Area Networks, to establish standardized service and application interfaces and facilitators, APIs (application programming interfaces), and infrastructure for interoperability management and secure interaction and access to any SmartBAN data/entities, such as providing unified access to medical sensors/wearables measurements and information. The resulting SmartBAN reference architect...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: Digital Health Source Type: news