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The last few years have seen remarkable advances in the fields of body area networks and pervasive computing. These technologies generate large volumes of data that need to be processed, reasoned about, and acted upon. In this paper, we review the role ...

Falls are currently a leading cause of death from injury in the elderly. The usage of the conventional assistive cane devices is critical in reducing the risk of falls and is relied upon by over 4 million patients in the U.S.. While canes provide ...

Both the percentage and raw number of people in need of wheelchairs are increasing every year. Unfortunately, wheelchair users are much more limited in access to conventional IT resources such as home computers and Internet, than their non-disabled ...

In this paper a new platform for monitoring of mobility in health care is presented. The platform was designed with a primary aim at monitoring of mobility and fall incidents in elderly people and is part of a wider system that uses web interfaces to ...

The Scalable Medical Alert and Response Technology (SMART) System was developed to monitor physiological signals from patients in the waiting areas of an emergency department. The system monitors the SpO₂ (oxygenation level in the blood), ECG (...

Body Area Network (BAN) provide critical data in healthcare monitoring environments, where such monitoring can be performed in a ubiquitous manner using various miniature device technologies. However, a key requirement in supporting the full capacity of ...

In pervasive environments, Body Area Networks (BANs) are characterized by the mobility of their users. BANs can continuously interact with each other, thus enabling the provision of new applications and services at runtime. New complex services can be ...

To aid development of Body Sensor Network (BSN) applications, we define a framework that manages common tasks for healthcare monitoring applications. The framework allows for dynamic configuration and control of signal processing and sensing functions ...

CareNet is an integrated wireless sensor environment for remote healthcare that uses a two-tier wireless network and an extensible software platform. CareNet provides both highly reliable and privacy-aware patient data collection, transmission and ...

We consider a beamforming scheme for binaural hearing aids and analyze the effects of quantization on its performance. A limited bandwidth wireless link is assumed between the binaural hearing aids for communication from one ear to the other ear, where ...

Electrodes were developed for use in a wireless data-sharing system between hearing aids. Electrodes were placed on the outsides of custom-fit, in-the-ear (ITE) and one-size-fits-all behind-the-ear (BTE) hearing aid shells. Impedance mesurements and ...

Body sensor networks (BSNs) offer a wealth of opportunities for precise, accurate, continuous, and non-invasive sensing of physiological phenomena, but their unique operating environment, the body-area, poses unique technical challenges. Popular ...

A body sensor network using human body as a communication medium is analyzed and designed to achieve both power-and energy-efficiency. An analysis of the body channel network on frequency, distance, transmitting power and received power is performed. ...

Emerging body-wearable devices for continuous health monitoring are severely energy constrained and yet required to offer high communication reliability under fluctuating channel conditions. This paper investigates the dynamic adaptation of radio ...

The requirement for electrical power is a major limitation in the development of biosensors for in-body applications. This paper considers motion powered energy harvesting devices for in-body use, showing that power levels are unlikely to exceed a few ...

This paper addresses the security of the radio link in body area sensor networks (BASNs). Given that the well being of a person or its privacy can be compromised, security in a BASN is of utmost importance. In this work, we take a joint encryption/...

Technology innovation is the key to enhancing the quality of life for everyone in the continuum of life from newborns to senior citizens. Management innovation is the fuel that sustains the technology innovation engine. Thus, together, management ...

In this paper, a novel approach for segmenting ECG signal in a body sensor network is presented. Hidden Markov Modeling (HMM) technique is employed. The parameter adaptation in traditional HMM methods is conservative and slow to respond to these beat ...

This paper presents a networked proximity sensing and Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based mechanism that can be applied for stochastic identification of body postures using a wearable sensor network. The idea is to collect relative proximity information ...

In this paper, we describe a manual wheelchair propulsion classification system which recognizes different patterns using a wrist mounted accelerometer. Four distinct propulsion patterns have been identified in a limited user study. This study is the ...

Advancement in technology has led to measure the human performance using sophisticated multiple systems such as motion capture and physiological data monitoring systems. These systems together, represent the human activity in various physiologic and ...

This paper introduces a smart textile for posture classification. A distributed sensing and processing architecture is implemented into a loose fitting long sleeve shirt. Standardized interfaces to remote periphery support the variable placement of ...

The aim of this work was to model electro-oculogram (EOG) to find optimal electrode positions for wearable human-computer interface system. The system is a head cap developed in our institute and with it we can measure EOG and facial electromyography (...

This paper makes a case for a communication architecture for electronic textiles (e-textiles). The properties and requirements of e-textile garments are described and analyzed. Based on these properties, the authors make a case for employing wired, ...

The last few years have seen the emergence of many applications such as wellness, chronic disease management and assisted living that require pervasive sensing of people and the environment. Many of these applications require on-body sensing of various ...

IEEE 802.15 established a new working group, wireless body area networks (WBAN), to develop short range wireless technology in and around human body recently. This paper investigates networking issues in implant communications of WBAN. The object is ...

Wireless body sensor networks operate under the conflicting requirements of maintaining the desired reliability and message latency of data transmissions, while simultaneously maximizing battery-life of individual body sensors. In doing so, the ...

This paper describes the application of the first fully wireless network of inertial sensors for full-body 3-D motion capture -- the Orient-2 system, to real-time on-body analysis of the golf swing. The golfer-club system is modelled as a double ...

Present day shopping environments are centered around the needs of the consumer, and they aim to facilitate convenient access to different product lines varying from groceries to books to everyday electronics. Supermarkets and hypermarkets are examples ...

Current mobile phones provide GSM cell information and many devices also support GPS or WiFi-based location information. A problem with raw location data is that it does not provide semantic information, which makes it hard to integrate location-...