Radio-frequency energy harvesting for wearable sensors

Healthcare Technology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 22-27

  Borges, Luís M ^a   Chávez Santiago, Raul ^b,c   Barroca, Norberto ^a   Velez, Fernando José ^a   Balasingham, Ilangko ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; DIGITAL TELEVISION; ENERGY HARVESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIO COMMUNICATION; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RADIO WAVES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELEVISION NETWORKS; WEARABLE COMPUTERS; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

DIGITAL TERRESTRIAL TELEVISION; DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS; RADIO FREQUENCY ENERGY HARVESTING; RADIO FREQUENCY TRANSMISSION; ULTRA-LOW-POWER ELECTRONICS; URBAN AND SUBURBAN AREAS; WEARABLE BIOMEDICAL SENSORS;

WEARABLE SENSORS;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; ENERGY HARVESTING; HEALTH CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; POWER SUPPLY; RADIOFREQUENCY; RF ENERGY HARVESTER; SELF MONITORING; SENSOR; SUBURBAN AREA; TELECOMMUNICATION; URBAN AREA; WEARABLE BIOMEDICAL SENSOR;

EID: 85019442535     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20533713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/htl.2014.0096     Document Type: Article

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