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2011 | Buch

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Wearable Monitoring Systems

herausgegeben von: Annalisa Bonfiglio, Danilo De Rossi

Verlag: Springer US

Enthalten in: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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As diverse as tomorrow’s society constituent groups may be, they will share the common requirements that their life should become safer and healthier, offering higher levels of effectiveness, communication and personal freedom. The key common part to all potential solutions fulfilling these requirements is wearable embedded systems, with longer periods of autonomy, offering wider functionality, more communication possibilities and increased computational power. As electronic and information systems on the human body, their role is to collect relevant physiological information, and to interface between humans and local and/or global information systems. Within this context, there is an increasing need for applications in diverse fields, from health to rescue to sport and even remote activities in space, to have real-time access to vital signs and other behavioral parameters for personalized healthcare, rescue operation planning, etc. This book’s coverage will span all scientific and technological areas that define wearable monitoring systems, including sensors, signal processing, energy, system integration, communications, and user interfaces. Six case studies will be used to illustrate the principles and practices introduced.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

Components and systems

Chapter 1. Sensors for Wearable Systems
Abstract
When designing wearable systems to be used for physiological and biomechanical parameters monitoring, it is important to integrate sensors easy to use, comfortable to wear, and minimally obtrusive. Wearable systems include sensors for detecting physiological signs placed on-body without discomfort, and possibly with capability of real-time and continuous recording. The system should also be equipped with wireless communication to transmit signals, although sometimes it is opportune to extract locally relevant variables, which are transmitted when needed.
Enzo Pasquale Scilingo, Antonio Lanatà, Alessandro Tognetti
Chapter 2. Energy Harvesting for Self-Powered Wearable Devices
Abstract
Personalized sensor networks optionally should include wearable sensors or a body area network (BAN) wirelessly connected to a home computer or a remote computer through long-distance devices, such as a personal digital assistant or a mobile phone. While long-distance data transmission can typically be performed only by using the batteries as a power supply, the sensors with a short-distance wireless link can be powered autonomously. The idea of a self-powered device is not new and is actually known for centuries. The earliest example of self-powered wearable device is the self-winding watch invented in about 1770. However, typically not much energy is harvested in a small device, so that use of a battery, primary or rechargeable, is beneficial from practical point of view.
Vladimir Leonov
Chapter 3. Wireless Communication Technologies for Wearable Systems
Abstract
Wireless communication technologies and wearable health-monitoring systems are inexorably linked, as wireless capabilities allow devices worn by ambulatory patients to share data (and often power) in real time with other wireless nodes. Such systems incur little-to-no cost in terms of patient/device interaction and are a dramatic improvement over traditional store-and-forward wearable monitoring devices, such as Holter monitors. In addition, the ad hoc networking functionality supported by emerging plug-and-play wireless standards points to the inevitable reality of patient environments that host pervasive networks of wireless health care devices whose primary role is to increase their quality of life. Clearly, the realization of these wireless tools does not come without cost. Wires that may have once provided high data throughput and access to power, data storage, and processing resources are no longer available. The engineering challenge is therefore to incorporate adequate power, data storage, and processing capabilities on the wireless devices to balance the throughput and operational lifetime needs of the monitoring application. Concurrently, one must consider security issues associated with broadcasting previously local information.
Steve Warren, Balasubramaniam Natarajan
Chapter 4. Design of Wireless Health Platforms
Abstract
Wireless embedded platforms play a significant role in Wireless Health: For many hidden medical conditions, symptoms may not reveal during traditional clinical visits. Cumulative, free-living monitoring, where individuals are monitored continuously with the use of wireless electronics and sensors, is considered a potential solution for capturing additional physiological data (Bonato 2003). From chronic disease management to physical rehabilitation, these platforms have demonstrated their potential uses (Moy et al. 2003; Bonato 2005).
Lawrence Au, Brett Jordan, Winston Wu, Maxim Batalin, William J. Kaiser
Chapter 5. Lightweight Signal Processing for Wearable Body Sensor Networks
Abstract
Use of mobile sensor-based platforms for human action recognitionis an ever-growing area of research. Recent advances in this field allowpatients to wear several small sensors with embedded processors and radios.Collectively, these sensors form a body sensor network (BSN). AlthoughBSNs have the potential to enable many useful applications [1], limitedprocessing power, storage and energy make efficient use of these systemscrucial. Moreover, user comfort is a major issue, which can cause patients tobecome frustrated and stop wearing the sensor nodes. The interactionbetween the human body and these wearable nodes here is defined as wearability.
Hassan Ghasemzadeh, Eric Guenterberg, Roozbeh Jafari
6. Signal Data Mining from Wearable Systems
Abstract
Sensors from wearable systems can be analyzed in real-time on-site, or can be transmitted to a central hub to be analyzed off-line. In both cases, the goal of the analysis is to extract from the measurements information about the state of the user, and identify anomalous behavior to alert the person. The notion of state depends obviously on the particular application, but in general characterizes a high-level function: the user is awake (as opposed to asleep), the user is falling, the user is going to have a heart attack, etc.
Francois G. Meyer
Chapter 7. Future Direction: E-Textiles
Abstract
Body worn systems, endowed with autonomous sensing, processing, actuation, communication and energy harvesting and storage are emerging as a solution to the challenges of monitoring people anywhere and at anytime in applications such as healthcare, well-being and lifestyle, protection and safety.
Danilo Emilio de Rossi, Rita Paradiso

Applications

Frontmatter
Chapter 8. A Survey of Commercial Wearable Systems for Sport Application
Abstract
The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview on wearable systems used in sport and physical activities. Sportconcept covers many different types of activities and objectives of its practitioners. The use of ICT technologies in sport, and in particular of wearable systems, is therefore closely linked with the specificities of the sportive practice rules, conditions, environments and goals.
Sergio Guillén, Maria Teresa Arredondo, Elena Castellano
Chapter 9. Wearable Electronic Systems: Applications to Medical Diagnostics/Monitoring
Abstract
The combination of an ageing population and the increase in chronic disease has greatly escalated health costs. It has been estimated that up to 75% of healthcare spending is on chronic disease management (mainly cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity) (World Health Organization 2010). It is now widely recognised that there is a need to radically change the present Healthcare systems, historically based on costly hospital-centred acute care, and make them more appropriate for the continuous home-based management of chronic diseases. The goals of the new approach are the improved management of the chronic disease through encouraging lifestyle changes and the effective early detection and treatment of any problem before it necessitates costly emergency intervention.
Eric McAdams, Asta Krupaviciute, Claudine Gehin, Andre Dittmar, Georges Delhomme, Paul Rubel, Jocelyne Fayn, Jad McLaughlin
Chapter 10. Emergency and Work
Abstract
In most recent years, technological advances have brought in consumer electronics many portable applications that have become part of our daily life. Miniaturized headphones, mp3 players are only an example of this trend. Leveraging on the low cost and versatility of these devices, some companies have launched new products combining the portability of these systems with the possibility of using these devices as support for some common human activities. In parallel with this technological and market evolution, awareness raised among public opinion about the need of contrasting accidents occurring to those people who work in harsh conditions and need to increase safety and possibly efficiency of intervention. This need is particularly enhanced for professional categories such as fire-fighters and Civil Protection rescuers.
Annalisa Bonfiglio, Davide Curone, Emanuele Lindo Secco, Giovanni Magenes, Alessandro Tognetti
Chapter 11. Augmenting Exploration: Aerospace, Earth and Self
Abstract
Advances in robotics technology, computer technology, and materials science are enabling the development of hybrid human–machine system designs that allow humans to perform at higher levels, to function in extreme environments, and to better recover from or compensate for injury. The design goals of these human–machine systems are presented, with particular emphasis on wearability and reliability. Accompanying challenges of sensing, actuation, and control are also discussed. We also explore the innovative and interdisciplinary design process, which includes modeling, experimentation, and prototyping.
Diana Young, Dava Newman

Environmental and commercial scenarios

Chapter 12. Scenarios for the Interaction Between Personal Health Systems and Chronic Patients
Abstract
Rising life expectancy and declining birthrate are globally resulting in an aging population. In particular, the western world will be particularly affected by the aging of its population during the next years. According to a report issued by Eurostat – the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in the European Union (EU) the share of population aged 65 years and over is projected to rise from 17.1% in 2008 to 30.0% in 2060, and those aged 80 years and over is projected to rise from 4.4% to 12.1% over the same period (Giannakouris 2008).
Maria Teresa Arredondo, Sergio Guillén, I. Peinado, G. Fico
Chapter 13. The Commercialization of Smart Fabrics: Intelligent Textiles
Abstract
What is the relationship between hearing aids, corrective lenses, and smart textiles1? At first glance, none – but one thread, often invisible– is revealing in terms of the future of smart textiles. Hearing aids address a niche market, albeit a large niche – those persons (mostly elderly) suffering fromwhat we still call today “impairment” – a hearing impairment. But is it not the same for corrective lenses? Can a young person or adolescent be considered an “impaired person”? Today, both corrective lenses and hearing aids improve human body functioning: corrective lenses are mainstream products that correct basic functions; and hearing aids are on the way to becoming mainstream products.
George Kotrotsios, Jean Luprano
Backmatter
Metadaten
Titel
Wearable Monitoring Systems
herausgegeben von
Annalisa Bonfiglio
Danilo De Rossi
Copyright-Jahr
2011
Verlag
Springer US
Electronic ISBN
978-1-4419-7384-9
Print ISBN
978-1-4419-7383-2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7384-9

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