Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rehman, A.
• Mustafa, M.
• Javaid, N.
• Qasim, U.
• Khan, Z. A.

Titel

Analytical Survey of Wearable Sensors

Ist Teil von

• 2012 Seventh International Conference on Broadband, Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications, 2012, p.408-413

Ort / Verlag

IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

IEEE Electronic Library Online

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Wearable sensors in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) provide health and physical activity monitoring. Modern communication systems have extended this monitoring remotely. In this survey, various types of wearable sensors discussed, their medical applications like ECG, EEG, blood pressure, detection of blood glucose level, pulse rate, respiration rate and non medical applications like daily exercise monitoring and motion detection of different body parts. Different types of noise removing filters also discussed at the end that are helpful in to remove noise from ECG signals. Main purpose of this survey is to provide a platform for researchers in wearable sensors for WBANs.