Need for wearable systems, Sensors for wearable systems-Inertia movement sensors, Respiration activity sensor, Inductive plethysmography, Impedance plethysmography, pneumography, GSR, Radiant thermal sensor, Wearable motion sensors, E-Textiles, Bio compatibility
Wearability issues -physical shape and placement of sensor, Technical challenges - sensor design, signal acquisition, Constraint on sampling frequency for reduced energy consumption, light weight signal processing, Rejection of irrelevant information, Datamining
Solar cell, Vibration based, Thermal based, Human body as a heat source for power generation, Hybrid thermoelectric photovoltaic energy harvests, Thermopiles.
Need for wireless monitoring, Definition of Body area network, BAN and Healthcare, Technical Challenges- System security and reliability, BAN Architecture – Introduction, Wireless communication techniques.
Medical Diagnostics, Medical Monitoring-Patients with chronic disease, Hospital patients, Elderly patients, Multi parameter monitoring, Neural recording, Gait analysis, Sports Medicine, Smart Fabrics
Reference Book:
1.Hang, Yuan-Ting, "Wearable medical sensors and systems",Springer-2013. 2.Mehmet R. Yuce, JamilY.Khan, "Wireless Body Area Networks Technology, Implementation and Applications", Pan Stanford Publishing Pvt. Ltd, Singapore, 2012. 3.Guang-Zhong Yang(Ed.), "Body Sensor Networks, "Springer, 2006
Text Book:
1.Annalisa Bonfiglio, Danilo De Rossi,"Wearable Monitoring Systems", Springer, 2011. 2.Sandeep K.S. Gupta, TridibMukherjee, Krishna Kumar Venkatasubramanian, "Body Area Networks Safety, Security, and Sustainability," Cambridge University Press, 2013.
