Recent advances and design challenges in wireless health monitoring

Microwave Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 34-43

  Schreurs, D M M P ^a   Mercuri, M ^a   Soh, P J ^a,b   Vandenbosch, Guy A E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Fall detection; Health monitoring; Radar remote sensing; Tag less localization; Wireless technologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893462970     PISSN: 14505835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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