Healthcare sensor networks challenges toward practical implementation
Healthcare sensor networks (HSNs) now offer the possibility to continuously monitor human activity and physiological signals in a mobile environment. Such sensor networks may be able to reduce the strain on the present healthcare workforce by providing new autonomous monitoring services ranging from...
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| Format: | eBook |
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Boca Raton :
CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st edition |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627890606719 |
Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Editors; Contributors; Chapter 1: Sensor Networks in Healthcare: A New Paradigm for Improving Future Global Health; Chapter 2: Healthcare and Accelerometry: Applications for Activity Monitoring, Recognition, and Functional Assessment; Chapter 3: Intrabody Communication Using Contact Electrodes in Low-Frequency Bands; Chapter 4: The Prospect of Energy-Harvesting Technologies for Healthcare Wireless Sensor Networks; Chapter 5: Addressing Security, Privacy and Efficiency Issues in Healthcare Systems
- Chapter 6: Flexible and Wearable Chemical Sensors for Noninvasive BiomonitoringChapter 7: Monitoring Walking in Health and Disease; Chapter 8: Motion Sensors in Osteoarthritis: Prospects and Issues; Chapter 9: The Challenges of Monitoring Physical Activity in Children with Wearable Sensor Technologies; Chapter 11: Nocturnal Sensing and Intervention for Assisted Living of People with Dementia; Chapter 13: Designing a Low-Cost ECG Sensor and Monitor: Practical Considerations and Measures; Chapter 14: Sensors, Monitoring and Model-Based Data Analysis in Sports, Exercise and Rehabilitation
- Chapter 15: Robust Monitoring of Sport and ExerciseBack Cover
