Wireless Body Area Network Based on RFID System for Healthcare Monitoring: Progress and Architectures

Abstract

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology and Wireless body area network (WBAN) represent the two most strike evolutions for information and communication technology that have attracted attention of researchers and engineers in recent years because they involves several scientific fields. Due to numerous works exploiting the physical integration of RFID devices and WBAN in the healthcare applications, selecting the requirements needed to achieve efficient integrating system is being a challenging task. In this paper we discuss the stat of the art of the matching between RFID technology and WBAN system for healthcare monitoring area and we describes different recent architectures used for this integrating technologies, also a discussion of technical challenges of integrating WBAN and RFID is presented. Finally we propose our suggested RFID body sensor tag design placed directly on human skin for WBAN.