Autonomous Wearable System for Vital Signs Measurement With Energy-Harvesting Module

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1423-1434

  Dionisi, Alessandro ^a   Marioli, Daniele ^a   Sardini, Emilio ^a   Serpelloni, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autonomous system; heart rate monitoring; instrumented T shirt; power harvesting; respiratory frequency monitoring; solar cell; vital sign monitoring; wearable system

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ENERGY HARVESTING; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; SOLAR CELL ARRAYS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT BOARDS; FLEXIBLE SOLAR PANELS; GOLD STANDARDS; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; RESPIRATION RATE; VIABLE SOLUTIONS; WEARABLE DEVICES; WEARABLE SYSTEMS;

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84957659800     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2016.2519779     Document Type: Article

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