Unobstructive body area networks (BAN) for efficient movement monitoring

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 12473-12488

  Felisberto, Filipe ^a,b   Costa, Nuno ^b,c   Fdez Riverola, Florentino ^a   Pereira, António ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b INOV INESC INNOVATION   (Portugal)

^c POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Inertial and physiological sensors; Motion recognition; Profiling; Rehabilitation; Wireless body area networks

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS MONITORING; MOTION RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGICAL SENSORS; PROFILING; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ANTENNAS; CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; DATA HANDLING; MICROELECTRONICS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PATIENT REHABILITATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

LOW POWER ELECTRONICS;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ART; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER NETWORK; HUMAN; INERTIAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL SENSORS; METHODOLOGY; MOTION RECOGNITION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PROFILING; QUALITY OF LIFE; REHABILITATION; TELEMETRY; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

INERTIAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL SENSORS; MOTION RECOGNITION; PROFILING; REHABILITATION; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; MOVEMENT; POSTURE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REHABILITATION; TELEMETRY; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84867015464     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120912473     Document Type: Article

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