Wearable body sensor network for health care applications
Abstract "Wearable computing" refers to electronic systems that are directly integrated into garments and accessories for constant monitoring and easy accessibility, which is a wearable body sensor network (WBSN) based on smart textiles. WBSNs will be a great solution to enable the ubiquitous noninvasive health monitoring in people's daily life. However, developing smart textile based body sensor networks poses significant technical challenges for the sensor and sensor network design such as miniaturization of sensors, imbedding sensors in noninvasive wearable structures, the integration of radio integrated circuits (ICs) and modules with body worn antennas, energy consumption minimization, and data security. In this chapter, the challenges of designing electronic textiles based body sensor networks are discussed, and strategies and solutions to overcome the problems are proposed. To demonstrate the applicability of smart textile based body sensor networks, the Internet of Things (IoT) systems for health care and fitness applications will be reviewed.