• DocumentCode
    2354288
  • Title

    Analytical Survey of Wearable Sensors

  • Author

    Rehman, Akif ; Mustafa, M. ; Javaid, Nadeem ; Qasim, U. ; Khan, Zahoor Ali

  • Author_Institution
    COMSATS Inst. of IT, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    12-14 Nov. 2012
  • Firstpage
    408
  • Lastpage
    413
  • Abstract
    Wearable sensors in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) provide health and physical activity monitoring. Modern communication systems have extended this monitoring remotely. In this survey, various types of wearable sensors discussed, their medical applications like ECG, EEG, blood pressure, detection of blood glucose level, pulse rate, respiration rate and non medical applications like daily exercise monitoring and motion detection of different body parts. Different types of noise removing filters also discussed at the end that are helpful in to remove noise from ECG signals. Main purpose of this survey is to provide a platform for researchers in wearable sensors for WBANs.
  • Keywords
    body sensor networks; filtering theory; medical signal processing; patient monitoring; signal denoising; ECG signals; EEG; WBAN; blood glucose level detection; blood pressure; communication systems; daily exercise monitoring; health activity monitoring; motion detection; noise removing filters; nonmedical applications; physical activity monitoring; pulse rate; respiration rate; wearable sensors; wireless body area networks; Biomedical monitoring; Electrocardiography; Electrodes; Electroencephalography; Monitoring; Noise; Sensors; Accelerometers; ECG; Physical Activity; Wearable Sensors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Broadband, Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA), 2012 Seventh International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Victoria, BC
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2972-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/BWCCA.2012.73
  • Filename
    6363089