Title
Toward sub-pJ per classification in Body Area Sensor Networks
Abstract
Body Area Sensor Networks (BASN) are expected to provide a way to improve medical care while reducing its costs. Reducing their energy consumption is a critical step before building reliable and durable systems. Acquisition and classification of Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals is a central task in medical BASNs. This paper introduces a method to perform the classification between three abnormal types of heart beats at ultra-low power using Sparse Neural Associative Memories (SNAM). Based on recent analog implementation of a SNAM node using the ST CMOS 65 nm design kit, the proposed SNAM uses only 864 fJ per classification. Compared to a digital ultra-low power multi-core architecture, this SNAM consumes several orders of magnitude less energy while achieving classification accuracy of 93.5 %.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/NEWCAS.2016.7604764
2016 14th IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
body area sensor networks,medical care,energy consumption,ECG signal acquisition,ECG signal classification,electrocardiogram,medical BASN,abnormal heart beat,sparse neural associative memories,ST CMOS design kit,digital ultralow power multicore architecture
Content-addressable memory,Computer science,CMOS,Electronic engineering,Wireless sensor network,Energy consumption,Low-power electronics
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2472-467X
978-1-4673-8901-3
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
8
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paul Chollet111.75
Kevin Colombier210.40
Cyril Lahuec3299.17
Matthieu Arzel46915.10
Fabrice Seguin53616.02