Low-power Wearable Healthcare Sensors

• Outros Autores: Sherratt, R. Simon (Editor), Dey, Nilanjan (Editor)
• Formato: Recurso Eletrônico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Assuntos: History of engineering & technology
• Acesso em linha: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Advances in technology have produced a range of on-body sensors and smartwatches that can be used to monitor a wearer's health with the objective to keep the user healthy. However, the real potential of such devices not only lies in monitoring but also in interactive communication with expert-system-based cloud services to offer personalized and real-time healthcare advice that will enable the user to manage their health and, over time, to reduce expensive hospital admissions. To meet this goal, the research challenges for the next generation of wearable healthcare devices include the need to offer a wide range of sensing, computing, communication, and human-computer interaction methods, all within a tiny device with limited resources and electrical power. This Special Issue presents a collection of six papers on a wide range of research developments that highlight the specific challenges in creating the next generation of low-power wearable healthcare sensors.