A review on architectures and communications technologies for wearable health-monitoring systems

V. Custodio, F.J. Herrera, G. López, J.I. Moreno

Sensors Vol. 12, nº. 10, pp. 13907 - 13946

Resumen:

Nowadays society is demanding more and more smart healthcare services that allow monitoring patient status in a non-invasive way, anywhere and anytime. Thus, healthcare applications are currently facing important challenges guided by the u-health (ubiquitous health) and p-health (pervasive health) paradigms. New emerging technologies can be combined with other widely deployed ones to develop such next-generation healthcare systems. The main objective of this paper is to review and provide more details on the work presented in 'LOBIN: E-Textile and Wireless-Sensor-Network-Based Platform for Healthcare Monitoring in Future Hospital Environments', published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, as well as to extend and update the comparison with other similar systems. As a result, the paper discusses the main advantages and disadvantages of using different architectures and communications technologies to develop wearable systems for pervasive healthcare applications.

Palabras Clave: Wearable Health Monitoring Systems (WHMS), Body Area Networks (BAN), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), ubiquitous health, pervasive health, e-Textile, indoor location

Índice de impacto JCR y cuartil WoS: 1,953 - Q1 (2012); 3,400 - Q2 (2023)

Referencia DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/s121013907

Publicado en papel: Octubre 2012.

Publicado on-line: Octubre 2012.

Cita:
V. Custodio, F.J. Herrera, G. López, J.I. Moreno, A review on architectures and communications technologies for wearable health-monitoring systems. Sensors. Vol. 12, nº. 10, pp. 13907 - 13946, Octubre 2012. [Online: Octubre 2012]