Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks: Charecterization and case study for confined spaces healthcare applications

Nowadays developments in wireless sensor and actuators networks (WSAN) applications are determined by the fulfillment of constraints imposed by the application. For this reason, in this work a characterization of WSAN applications in health, environmental, agricultural and industrial sectors are presented. A case study for detecting heart arrhythmias in non-critical patients during rehabilitation sessions in confined spaces is presented, and finally an architecture for the network and nodes in these applications is proposed.