Main description:

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 characterising 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.

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 (R): 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