A WBAN for Human Movement Kinematics and ECG Measurements

Abstract

Biomedical applications of body area networks (BANs) are evolving, where taking periodic medical readings of patients via means wireless technologies at home or in the office will aid physicians to periodically supervise the patient's medical status without having to see the patient. Thus, one important objective of BANs is to provide the doctor with the medical readings that can be collected electronically without being in close proximity to the patient. This is done through the measurement of the patient's physiological signals via means of wearable sensors. This paper investigates wireless BAN cooperation via actual measurements of human movement kinematics and electrocardiogram (ECG), which are believed to provide patients with easy healthcare for continuous health-monitoring. The collected information will be processed using specially designed software, which in turn will enable the patient to send a full medical chart to the physician's electronic device. In this way, physicians will have the ability to monitor their patients more efficiently.

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“…Ahmed Baraka et al [ 3 ] investigated a framework using WBAN for measurement of electrocardiogram (ECG) and human movement kinematics. Authors believed that it provided the system can handle easily continuous health monitoring for the patient.…”

“…Internet of things (IoT) [1][2][3][4][5] has changed our daily living with its different applications. The concept of the IoT reflects a connection in a set of any time, anything, anyplace, any network, and any services.…”

“…In the WBAN-Based health-monitoring architecture is three-layer architecture [6,7,14,15] shown in Fig. 1 [3,5,6]. Tier 1: enclose a set of small, smart sensors that are wearable or implanted in the human or patient body.…”