An overview of body sensor networks in enabling perva-sive healthcare and assistive environments

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Liolios, Charalampos ^a   Doukas, Charalampos ^b   Fourlas, George ^c   Maglogiannis, Ilias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL GREECE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LAMIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Body sensor networks; Healthcare applications; Ubiqui tous computing; Wireless body area networks

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE; BIOSENSOR DESIGN; BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY SENSOR NETWORK; CURRENT RESEARCHES; ENGINEERING SECTORS; EXTREME ENVIRONMENT; HEALTHCARE APPLICATIONS; INFERENCING; INTEGRATED WIRELESS SENSOR; LOW POWER; MONITORING SYSTEM; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; TEM; UBIQUITOUS COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

BIOSENSORS; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 77956285550     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1839294.1839346     Document Type: Conference Paper

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