Department of Electronics, Electrics and Automatic Control Engineering, Rovira i Virgili University, 43007 Tarragona, Spain.
Sensors (Basel). 2020 Nov 6;20(21):6342. doi: 10.3390/s20216342.
This paper presents a method for low data rate transmission for devices implanted in the body using backscattered Long Range (LoRa) signals. The method uses an antenna loaded with a switch that changes between two load impedances at the rate of a modulating oscillator. Consequently, the LoRa signal transmitted by a LoRa node is reflected in the adjacent channels and can be detected with a LoRa gateway tuned to the shifted channels. A prototype developed to operate at Medical Implant Communication Service (MICS) and the Industrial Scientific and Medical (ISM) 433 MHz band is presented. The prototype uses a commercial ceramic antenna with a matched network tuned to the frequency band with high radiation efficiency. The effect of the coating material covering the antenna was studied. Simulated and experimental results using a phantom show that it is feasible to read data from deep implanted devices placed a few meters from the body because of the high sensitivity of commercial LoRa receivers.
本文提出了一种利用体散射长距离(LoRa)信号为植入设备进行低数据率传输的方法。该方法使用加载有开关的天线,该开关以调制振荡器的速率在两个负载阻抗之间切换。因此,LoRa 节点发送的 LoRa 信号在相邻信道中反射,并可通过调谐到偏移信道的 LoRa 网关检测到。本文提出了一种在医疗植入通信服务(MICS)和工业、科学和医疗(ISM)433MHz 频段运行的原型。该原型使用带有匹配网络的商用陶瓷天线,该网络调谐到具有高辐射效率的频带。研究了覆盖天线的涂层材料的影响。使用仿体进行的仿真和实验结果表明,由于商用 LoRa 接收器的高灵敏度,可从放置在离身体数米远的深度植入设备中读取数据。