Wireless medical communications using UWB

This paper introduces some of the recent activities in a medical ICT related ultra wideband (UWB) research. The paper concentrates on our proposed body area network (BAN) based system architecture for wireless medical communications, and gives also a summary on experimental UWB wireless BAN (WBAN) radio channels modeling activities. The network architecture under discussion consists of parts that have already been implemented and also parts that require studies in more details before their utilization and implementation into operative healthcare services. For detailed communication system designs, accurate close body channel models are needed. This paper gives also a summary on UWB radio channel models that are suitable to be applied in wireless body area network research. Experiments for UWB radio channel models have been done in real end-user environments.