title: Reconfigurable intelligent sensors for health monitoring: a case study of pulse oximeter sensor.
abstract: Design of low-cost, miniature, lightweight, ultra low-power, intelligent sensors capable of customization and seamless integration into a body area network for health monitoring applications presents one of the most challenging tasks for system designers. To answer this challenge we propose a reconfigurable intelligent sensor platform featuring a low-power microcontroller, a low-power programmable logic device, a communication interface, and a signal conditioning circuit. The proposed solution promises a cost-effective, flexible platform that allows easy customization, run-time reconfiguration, and energy-efficient computation and communication. The development of a common platform for multiple physical sensors and a repository of both software procedures and soft intellectual property cores for hardware acceleration will increase reuse and alleviate costs of transition to a new generation of sensors. As a case study, we present an implementation of a reconfigurable pulse oximeter sensor.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Alabama University, Huntsville, AL, USA.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jovanov
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Milenkovic
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Basham
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kelley