Nano-Enriched Self-Powered Wireless Body Area Network for Sustainable Health Monitoring Services

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2023-02-27

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MDPI

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Advances in nanotechnology have enabled the creation of novel materials with specific electrical and physical characteristics. This leads to a significant development in the industry of electronics that can be applied in various fields. In this paper, we propose a fabrication of nanotechnology-based materials that can be used to design stretchy piezoelectric nanofibers for energy harvesting to power connected bio-nanosensors in a Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN). The bio-nanosensors are powered based on harvested energy from mechanical movements of the body, specifically the arms, joints, and heartbeats. A suite of these nano-enriched bio-nanosensors can be used to form microgrids for a self-powered wireless body area network (SpWBAN), which can be used in various sustainable health monitoring services. A system model for an SpWBAN with an energy harvesting-based medium access control protocol is presented and analyzed based on fabricated nanofibers with specific characteristics. The simulation results show that the SpWBAN outperforms and has a longer lifetime than contemporary WBAN system designs without self-powering capability.

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wireless body area networks, bio-nanosensors, nano-materials, energy harvesting, flexible electronics

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Mokhtar, B.; Kandas, I.; Gamal, M.; Omran, N.; Hassanin, A.H.; Shehata, N. Nano-Enriched Self-Powered Wireless Body Area Network for Sustainable Health Monitoring Services. Sensors 2023, 23, 2633.