Wireless sensor networks for personal health monitoring: Issues and an implementation

Computer Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 13-14, 2006, Pages 2521-2533

  Milenković, Aleksandar ^a   Otto, Chris ^a   Jovanov, Emil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Hardware; Health monitoring; Signal processing; Software; Time synchronization; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEALTH CARE; INTERNET; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

HEALTH MONITORING; POWER MANAGEMENT; TIME SYNCHRONIZATION; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 33746764996     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2006.02.011     Document Type: Article

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