Wearable Inertial Sensors - Accelerometers, Gyroscopic sensors and Magnetic sensors; Modality of Measurement- Wearable Sensors, Invisible Sensors, In-Shoe Force and Pressure Measurement. Physical Activity monitoring: Human Kinetics, Cardiac Activity, Energy Expenditure measurement: Pedometers, Actigraph.
Wearable devices with Global Positioning System (GPS) integration for tracking and navigation. Wearable Optical Sensors -chemical sensors, optical glucose sensors, UV exposure indicators, speech recognition using lasers; Photoplethysmography (PPG), 3D imaging and motion capture.
Solar cell, Vibration based, Thermal based, Human body as a heat source for power generation, Hybrid thermoelectric photovoltaic energy harvests, Thermopiles
Need for wireless monitoring, Definition of Body area network, BAN and Healthcare, Technical Challenges- System security and reliability, BAN Architecture – Introduction, Wireless communication techniques.
Medical Diagnostics, Medical Monitoring-Patients with chronic disease, Hospital patients, Elderly patients, Multi parameter monitoring, Neural recording, Gait analysis, Sports Medicine, Smart Fabrics
Reference Book:
Hang, Yuan-Ting, "Wearable medical sensors and systems",Springer-2013 2 Mehmet R. Yuce, JamilY.Khan, "Wireless Body Area Networks Technology, Implementation and Applications", Pan Stanford Publishing Pvt. Ltd, Singapore, 2012. 3 Guang-Zhong Yang(Ed.), "Body Sensor Networks, "Springer, 2006 4 Andreas Lymberis, Danilo de Rossi ,'Wearable eHealth systems for Personalised Health Management - State of the art and future challenges ' IOS press, The Netherlands, 2004
Text Book:
1.Annalisa Bonfiglio, Danilo De Rossi,"Wearable Monitoring Systems", Springer, 2011. 2 Sandeep K.S. Gupta, TridibMukherjee, Krishna Kumar Venkatasubramanian, "Body Area Networks Safety, Security, and Sustainability," Cambridge University Press, 2013.
