Wearable Technologies and Wireless Body Sensor Networks for Healthcare (Healthcare Technologies)

"Continuous advances in wearables, sensors and smart Wireless Body Area Network technologies have precipitated the development of new applications for on-, in- and body-to-body wearable communications for healthcare and sport monitoring. Progress in this cross-disciplinary field is further influenced by developments in radio communication, protocols, synchronization aspects, energy harvesting and storage solutions, and efficient processing techniques for smart antennas. This book covers various scenarios and solutions using sensor devices and systems for activity recognition and their applications, including wearable communication, smart sensing, RF propagation, and measurement. The authors illustrate conceptual aspects and applications and provide a new vision in characterizing wearable technologies and the need for interoperability. Energy harvesting within wearable solutions is a key issue addressed here as it helps increase energy efficiency and reliability in wearable antennas and sensor devices."--Provided by publisher Content: Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Scenarios and applications for wearable technologies and WBSNs with energy harvestingChapter 3: A reliable wearable system for BAN applications with a high number of sensors and high data rateChapter 4: Implementation study of wearable sensors for human activity recognition systemsChapter 5: Electromagnetic characterisation of textile materials for the design of wearable antennas and systemsChapter 6: Human-movement identification using the radio signal strength in WBANChapter 7: Cognitive radio and RF energy harvesting for medical WBANSChapter 8: Two innovative energy efficient IEEE 802.15.4 MAC sub-layer protocols with packet concatenation: employing RTS/CTS and multichannel scheduled channel pollingChapter 9: A precise low power and hardware-efficient time synchronization method for wearable systemsChapter 10: Wearable sensor networks for human gaitChapter 11: Integration of sensing devices and the cloud for innovative e-Health applicationsChapter 12: VitalResponder (R): wearable wireless platform for vitals and body-area environment monitoring of first response teamsChapter 13: Wearable sensors for foetal movement monitoring in low risk pregnanciesChapter 14: Radio frequency energy harvesting and storing in supercapacitors for wearable sensorsChapter 15: Conclusion 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.