TY - JOUR
T1 - Wearable wireless medical sensors toward standards, safety and intelligence
T2 - A review
AU - Al-Busaidi, Asiya M.
AU - Khriji, Lazhar
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Using miniature wearable devices, it is possible to follow the health of individuals from outside the hospital in a convenient and easy way that does not restrict their movements or their daily activities. The wearable biomedical sensors or the Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) systems is about to become an important tool to match the express way of life nowadays. This paper reviews the technological developments in wireless sensor nodes for biomedical applications during the last decade. The review covers the electronics hardware design, challenges, safety and ending by the standards required to implement those systems. The designer of the wearable medical sensor should be aware of the standards and the safety issues at the acquisition and storage level, wireless transmission protocol level, powering level, security and privacy level, and overall safety level. Finally, this paper suggests some of the recent technologies that can be used to enhance the future WBAN systems.
AB - Using miniature wearable devices, it is possible to follow the health of individuals from outside the hospital in a convenient and easy way that does not restrict their movements or their daily activities. The wearable biomedical sensors or the Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) systems is about to become an important tool to match the express way of life nowadays. This paper reviews the technological developments in wireless sensor nodes for biomedical applications during the last decade. The review covers the electronics hardware design, challenges, safety and ending by the standards required to implement those systems. The designer of the wearable medical sensor should be aware of the standards and the safety issues at the acquisition and storage level, wireless transmission protocol level, powering level, security and privacy level, and overall safety level. Finally, this paper suggests some of the recent technologies that can be used to enhance the future WBAN systems.
KW - Biomedical applications
KW - Biomedical engineering standards
KW - Healthcare monitoring
KW - Medical sensors
KW - Motes
KW - Sensor nodes
KW - WAN
KW - WBAN
KW - Wearable sensors
KW - Wireless area network
KW - Wireless body area network
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U2 - 10.1504/IJBET.2014.059343
DO - 10.1504/IJBET.2014.059343
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84904368211
SN - 1752-6418
VL - 14
SP - 119
EP - 147
JO - International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
JF - International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
IS - 2
ER -