Bioinspired Design for Body Sensor Networks [Life Sciences]

At an age when information access is no longer limited by physical barriers or distances, the desire to have continuous sensing and monitoring, rather than simple episodic or snapshot measurements represents the current trend in almost all sensing applications ranging from environment, transport, and infrastructure to well being, sports, and health care. The term body sensor network (BSN) was coined to harness several allied technologies that underpin the development of pervasive sensing for health care, well being, sports, and other applications that require “ubiquitous” and “pervasive” monitoring of physical, physiological, and biochemical parameters in any environment without activity restriction or behavior modification [1].