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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/BWCCA.2012.73