Mobility support for health monitoring at home using wearable sensors

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 539-549

  González Valenzuela, Sergio ^a   Chen, Min ^b,c   Leung, Victor C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Performance evaluation; pervasive healthcare; wireless body area sensor network (WBASN); wireless communications protocol

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; AMBULATORY PATIENTS; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; DATA OPERATIONS; HEALTH MONITORING; MOBILITY SUPPORTS; PACKET LOSS RATES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERVASIVE HEALTHCARE; POINT-TO-POINT LINK; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; SENSOR POSITION; SIGNAL RECEPTION; VITAL SIGN; WEARABLE SENSORS; WIRELESS BODY AREA SENSOR NETWORK (WBASN); WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOL;

HEALTH CARE; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CLOTHING; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY; WALKING; WRIST;

CLOTHING; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY; WALKING; WRIST;

EID: 79960550644     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2010.2104326     Document Type: Article

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