Wearable Sensors
eBook - ePub

Wearable Sensors

Fundamentals, Implementation and Applications

  1. 656 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Wearable Sensors

Fundamentals, Implementation and Applications

About this book

Written by industry experts, this book aims to provide you with an understanding of how to design and work with wearable sensors. Together these insights provide the first single source of information on wearable sensors that would be a valuable addition to the library of any engineer interested in this field.Wearable Sensors covers a wide variety of topics associated with the development and application of various wearable sensors. It also provides an overview and coherent summary of many aspects of current wearable sensor technology.Both industry professionals and academic researchers will benefit from this comprehensive reference which contains the most up-to-date information on the advancement of lightweight hardware, energy harvesting, signal processing, and wireless communications and networks. Practical problems with smart fabrics, biomonitoring and health informatics are all addressed, plus end user centric design, ethical and safety issues.- Provides the first comprehensive resource of all currently used wearable devices in an accessible and structured manner- Helps engineers manufacture wearable devices with information on current technologies, with a focus on end user needs and recycling requirements- Combines the expertise of professionals and academics in one practical and applied source

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Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. List of Contributors
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1.1. Wearables: Fundamentals, Advancements, and a Roadmap for the Future
  8. Chapter 1.2. Social Aspects of Wearability and Interaction
  9. Chapter 1.3. Wearable Haptics
  10. Chapter 2.1. Wearable Bio and Chemical Sensors
  11. Chapter 2.2. Wearable Inertial Sensors and Their Applications
  12. Chapter 2.3. Application of Optical Heart Rate Monitoring
  13. Chapter 2.4. Measurement of Energy Expenditure by Body-worn Heat-flow Sensors
  14. Chapter 3.1. Knitted Electronic Textiles
  15. Chapter 3.2. Woven Electronic Textiles
  16. Chapter 3.3. Flexible Electronics from Foils to Textiles: Materials, Devices, and Assembly
  17. Chapter 4.1. Energy Harvesting at the Human Body
  18. Chapter 4.2. Introduction to RF Energy Harvesting
  19. Chapter 4.3. Low-Power Integrated Circuit Design for Wearable Biopotential Sensing
  20. Chapter 5.1. Wearable Algorithms: An Overview of a Truly Multi-Disciplinary Problem
  21. Chapter 5.2. Mining Techniques for Body Sensor Network Data Repository
  22. Chapter 5.3. Modeling Physical Activity Behavior Change
  23. Chapter 6.1. Human Body Communication for a High Data Rate Sensor Network
  24. Chapter 6.2. Channel Models for On-Body Communications
  25. Chapter 6.3. Trust Establishment in Wireless Body Area Networks
  26. Chapter 6.4. Wireless Body Area Networks
  27. Chapter 7.1. Fundamentals of Wearable Sensors for the Monitoring of Physical and Physiological Changes in Daily Life
  28. Chapter 7.2. Wearing Sensors Inside and Outside of the Human Body for the Early Detection of Diseases
  29. Chapter 7.3. Wearable and Non-Invasive Assistive Technologies
  30. Chapter 7.4. Detection and Characterization of Food Intake by Wearable Sensors
  31. Index