The Wireless Instrumentation Systems (WIS) contain a radio transmission link connecting the wireless sensor units to a base station. This link is designed to serve in industrial and medical applications for reliable transmission and receipt of sensor data. Each base station is defining a wireless cell and each wireless sensor unit becoming a node in that cell. The size of each cell is determined by the effective transmission distance of the radio link between the base station and the various wireless sensor units. Examples of applications are RFID, wireless body area networks (BAN) or personal area networks (PAN).

The WIS can be used in the field of oil well and reservoir monitoring systems and allows real time information to be recovered from remote sensors using the available conducting (steel) well infrastructure. In biomedical applications WIS are used as well together with body area networks (BAN) for remote sensing the patient's medical parameters like blood pulse pressure, oxygen saturation, internal pressures, orthopaedic device loading, and gastrointestinal endoscopy.

 For more information contact: Frode Strisland, Morten Berg