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A Survey on Wireless Body Area Networks for eHealthcare Systems in Residential Environments
Mohammad Ghamari1, Balazs Janko2, R Simon Sherratt3
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA. mghamari@utep.edu.
Abstract:
Current progress in wearable and implanted health monitoring technologies has strong potential to alter the future of healthcare services by enabling ubiquitous monitoring of patients. A typical health monitoring system consists of a network of wearable or implanted sensors that constantly monitor physiological parameters. Collected data are relayed using existing wireless communication protocols to a base station for additional processing. This article provides researchers with information to compare the existing low-power communication technologies that can potentially support the rapid development and deployment of WBAN systems, and mainly focuses on remote monitoring of elderly or chronically ill patients in residential environments.
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