Smart-clothing wireless flex sensor belt network for foetal health monitoring

2009 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare - Pervasive Health 2009, PCTHealth 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Borges, Luis M ^a   Barroca, Norberto ^a   Velez, Fernando J ^a   Lebres, António S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Foetal health; Patient monitoring; Smart clothing; WSNs

Indexed keywords

FLEX SENSOR; FOETAL HEALTH; HEALTH MONITORING; HYBRID NETWORK; IEEE 802.15.4 STANDARDS; LOW-POWER CIRCUIT; LR-WPANS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIMARY FUNCTIONS; SMART CLOTHING; TOTAL POWER; WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS; WSNS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PATIENT MONITORING; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SENSORS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 70350746658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.6028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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