Plug 'n play simplicity for wireless medical body sensors

2006 Pervasive Health Conference and Workshops, PervasiveHealth

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Falck, Thomas ^a   Baldus, Heribert ^a   Espina, Javier ^a   Klabunde, Karin ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body coupled communication; Network set up; Wireless body area network; Wireless patient monitoring

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; PATIENT MONITORING; WEARABLE SENSORS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

BODY COUPLED COMMUNICATIONS; HEALTH MONITORING; KEY TECHNOLOGIES; MEDICAL SENSORS; PERSONAL HEALTH CARE; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 50249157515     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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