torsdag 30 januari 2014
Comments regarding Galvanic Coupling
onsdag 29 januari 2014
Practice your Swedish
Upon request I am adding a couple of popular descriptions of the project that was direct towards visiting high school students (gymnasieelever) that we want to attract to Linköping University.
The two files are availabe in PDF and are downloaded from Google drive. Please let me know if you need translation ;) For some of the pictures presented in the documents I might have used some ... errgh ... artistic freedom and ... errgh ... borrowed material from the internet.
Enjoy!
tisdag 28 januari 2014
EM wave propagation on the surface of human body
- The relative permittivity for human body is aproximately 50 times more than in free space. If εr term comes in the denominator then the above electric field equation suggests 50 times weaker electric field propagation inside human body than free space. This is contradictory to the fact where conductive property of human body is described as a more suitable medium than free space for electric field propagation over a larger distance.
- The above equation also suggests that the length of the electrical dipole decreases with increasing frequency. For a frequency of few MHz, the theoretical length or dimension of the dipole suggested by this equation is much greater than the practical electrical dipole which is actually used in the human body channel experiments in different research papers, which is again a contradiction.
References
måndag 27 januari 2014
An embryo towards an integrated circuit for body coupled communication
We are currently assembling the integrated circuit that will form the base analog front end (AFE) for our experiments on body-coupled communication (BCC). What we have found in our investigation of commercial vendors and our own hardware is that the sensitivity "out there" is too low. We need to further increase the accuracy of the main input amplifiers, both in terms of noise, but also tuneable bandwidth. We have concluded that we cannot do all the required changes on board level, and instead we have to go towards the integrated circuit.
The circuit will also offer a standardized serial control interface such that we can interact with the most common microcontrollers/protocols. We will be backwards compatible with our own prototypes and also compatible with some of the commercial vendors.
måndag 20 januari 2014
Smart textiles
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