Wearable Technologies and Wireless Body Sensor Networks for Healthcare

This book is dedicated to the use of sensor devices, smart textiles and other wearable technologies applied to smart sensing in healthcare. The book includes discussions on activity recognition, RF propagation and channel measurement.

List of contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction


• Chapter 2: Scenarios and applications for wearable technologies and WBSNs with energy harvesting


• Chapter 3: A reliable wearable system for BAN applications with a high number of sensors and high data rate


• Chapter 4: Implementation study of wearable sensors for human activity recognition systems


• Chapter 5: Electromagnetic characterisation of textile materials for the design of wearable antennas and systems


• Chapter 6: Human-movement identification using the radio signal strength in WBAN


• Chapter 7: Cognitive radio and RF energy harvesting for medical WBANS


• Chapter 8: Two innovative energy efficient IEEE 802.15.4 MAC sub-layer protocols with packet concatenation: employing RTS/CTS and multichannel scheduled channel polling


• Chapter 9: A precise low power and hardware-efficient time synchronization method for wearable systems


• Chapter 10: Wearable sensor networks for human gait


• Chapter 11: Integration of sensing devices and the cloud for innovative e-Health applications


• Chapter 12: VitalResponder®: wearable wireless platform for vitals and body-area environment monitoring of first response teams


• Chapter 13: Wearable sensors for foetal movement monitoring in low risk pregnancies


• Chapter 14: Radio frequency energy harvesting and storing in supercapacitors for wearable sensors


• Chapter 15: Conclusion

Summary

This book is dedicated to the use of sensor devices, smart textiles and other wearable technologies applied to smart sensing in healthcare. The book includes discussions on activity recognition, RF propagation and channel measurement.

Product details

• Assisted by: Derogarian Miyandoab (Editor), Fardin Derogarian Miyandoab (Editor), Fardin Derogarian (Instituto de Telecomunicacoes Miyandoab (Editor), Fernando Josa Velez (Editor), Fernando Jose Velez (Editor), Fernando José Velez (Editor), Fernando Jose (Assistant Professor Velez (Editor)
• Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781785612176
• ISBN: 978-1-78561-217-6
• No. of pages: 608
• Dimensions: 243 mm x 168 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 1108 g
• Series: Healthcare Technologies; Healthcare Technologies
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine