BAN

A body area network or BAN is a very young concept in computing. The first BANs being proposed in mid 2009. In concept it is quite simple and elegant. In execution perhaps less so. A BAN is literally what it sounds like; a computer network surrounding a user's body and extending no more than perhaps a few centimetres from them.

The BAN consists of all wearable computing devices stitched into their clothes, their mobile phone, iPod, augmented vision system, and even prosthetics and implants inside them. All communicating together as and when they need to for optimum function.

The obvious exit point from the BAN to the outside world is the mobile phone, as it has integral to itself, a firewall, and provisions for safe interconnection with other, untrusted systems.

See Also: Wearable Computer, Wearable Computing

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Anticipatory Medical Device BAN Bank Sitter Body Area Network Brain Waves Cyberphile Cyberpunk EGNOS Gamma Wave Haptic Haptics ICA=ICC MBAN Media Oriented Systems Transport Medical Body Area Network Medical Implant Communication Service

MICS MOST MSAS MUCI Multimodal Sequence Muscle-Computer Interface Near Field Communication NFC Non-Interactive Parallel Rendering Perceptual User Interface Piezo Phototronics Piezoelectric Powergamer Powergaming PUI Quantified Self

RB2 Rubberbanding Shard Shards Spod Sword of Damocles TEEVE Telesurgical Unit The Bazaar Model VoIP VR Course WAAS Wearable Device Wide Area Augmentation System Wide area ground Reference Station WRS

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