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What is Body Area Network (BAN)? Describe some of the ways it can be used in healthcare? Explain why it has a potenţial to improve quality of patient care? Paragraph Arial : . E.T. . TT TT %DOQ 3 (12pt) TT. Words:0

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Ans)A body area network, also referred to as a wireless body area network or a body sensor network or a medical body area network, is a wireless network of wearable computing devices.

Applications in Healthcare:
- BANs have grown as a refinement of BSN. As such, BSN remain the most thought out applications of BAN. The needs the group had found for the very low BSN devices. BSN devices refine the general requirements by restricting themselves to a much smaller range (< 0.01 - 2.00 m). This limited range allows developers to take advantage of several aspects of the human body.

- First, the human body itself can become a channel for short range communication, thus removing the need for a traditional antenna. By removing the requirement of an additional antenna, the power consumption of BSN devices shrinks to 0.1 - 1.0 mW. At this low of power, the human body is actually capable of generating enough excess energy that the devices could "scavenge" the required energy directly from the host's body, removing the restriction on traditional power sources (like batteries) BAN technology is not one that is exact use case scenario has been thoroughly described by Microsoft in their patent titled, Method and apparatus for transmitting power and data using the human body.