Wearable monitoring systems

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A. BonfigUo, D. De Rossi, Wearable Monitoring System, Springer, New York, 2011. 

McAdams E.T., McLaughlin J, Anderson J McC., Wearable and implantable monitoring systems 10 years experience at University of Ulster Proc. Wearable Electronic and Smart Textiles Confi, Leeds, UK, 2004. 

In 1993, we reported on a study of nine normal subjects using a wearable continuous monitoring system.17 This was the first application of error grid analysis... 

Case study of a wearable pregnanqf monitoring system... 

E-textiles may be defined as textiles with electronic properties, and the markets for E-textiles are rapidly growing. An E-textile is an application built within a textile. E-textiles are finding their use in wearable technology, sports and fitness markets, medical and health monitoring systems, sleep apnea monitoring systems, antenna applications, space, military, infotainment, fashion, and others. Conductive tapes, webbings, fabrics, and 3D preforms are being used for E-textile applications. E-textile markets will soon be a billion dollar industry. 

Researchers (North Carolina State University News, 2014) from North Carolina State University have developed a new, stretchable antenna that can be incorporated into wearable technologies, such as health monitoring devices. Many researchers— including our lab—have developed prototype sensors for wearable health systems, but there was a clear need to develop antennas that can be easily incorporated into those systems to transmit data from the sensors, so that patients can be monitored or diagnosed, says Dr. Yong Zhu, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace... 

E-textiles are being used in wearable technology, the sports and fitness market, health monitoring systems, sleep apnea monitoring systems, antenna applications, and space, defense, and military applications. 

V. Custodio, F.J. Herrera, G. Lopez, J.I. Moreno, A review on architectures and communications technologies for wearable health-monitoring systems. Sensors (Basel) 12 (10) (2012) 13907-13946. 

K. Malhi, S.C. Mukhopadhyay,J. Schnepper,M. Haefke, H. Ewald,Azigbee-based wearable physiological parameters monitoring system, IEEE Sens. J. 12 (3) (March 2012) 423—430. 

J. Yao, S. Warren, Applying the ISO/IEEE 11073 standards to wearable home health monitoring systems, J. Clin. Monit. Comput. 19 (6) (December 2005) 427—436. 

In this chapter, biomedical sensors for wearable computing including their measur-and and measured parameters are discussed, and then the available techniques for the textile-based body sensor networks design are considered. In order to demonstrate the potential benefits of the textile-based wearable wireless body sensor networks, recent development in wireless vital signals monitoring systems based on loT for health care and fitness applications are reviewed. 

P. Pandian, K. Mohanavelu, K. Safeer, T. Kotresh, D. Shakunthala, P. Gopal, et al.. Smart Vest wearable multi-parameter remote physiological monitoring system. Medical Engineering Physics 30 (2008) 466-477. 

Wijesiriwardana, R., Mitcham, K., Dias, T., 2004. Fibre-meshed transducers based real time wearable physiological information monitoring system. In Eighth International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 2004 (ISWC 2004), vol. 1. IEEE, New York, NY, USA, pp. 40 7. 

Figure 12.1 Schematic structure and components of a wearable health-monitoring system.

LifeShirt (VivoMetrics Inc., Venmra, USA) is one of the initial models of wearable health-monitoring systems, introduced to the market in the early 2000s. The system includes a garment, a handheld device, and PC-based analysis software. 

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