Wireless wearable devices

A list of various wireless wearable devices is given in Table 7.4. Different wireless technologies have been used in different wearable devices. A prototype of advanced care and alert portable telemedical monitor (AMON) wrist-worn unit is shown in Fig. 7.14 [8]. The system has two major parts a wrist-wom unit and a stationary unit at the telemedicine center. The wrist-wom unit measures physiological parameters and transmits through a Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) network to the stationary unit for data collection and processing by trained medical personnel [8]. The stationary unit is composed of a JAVA server platform and a workstation connected to the GSM transceiver. 

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Wearable technology consists of wearable electronics, a term that mainly includes simple and more complex electronic devices and their embedding within textile structures. A good example of the popularity of the research subject is the current Qualcomm Tricorder X-Prize competition for the best portable, wireless device that monitors and diagnoses health conditions (XPRIZE, 2014). Undoubtedly, as the aim is that the device monitors such elements as blood pressure, respiratory rate, and temperature, some of the sensors of the device will come in the form of textile-embedded electronics. 

Honda, W., Harada, S., Arie, X, Akita, S., Takei, K., 2014. Wearable, human-interactive, health-monitoring, wireless devices fabricated by macroscale printing techniques. Adv. Funct. Mater. 24,3299-3304. 

A typical wearable body sensor network consists of multiple types of biomedical sensors and gateway (eg, smartphone or other mobile devices) that can aggregate the data from the sensors and transmit them to remote control servers or cloud. Especially for the textile-based wearable sensors, the sensors might have limited wireless... 

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