Healthcare sensor networks : challenges toward practical implementation /: challenges toward practical implementation. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Daniel Tze Huei Lai, Rezaul Begg, Marimuthu Palaniswami.
• Other Names: Lai, Daniel T. H; Begg, Rezaul; Palaniswami, Marimuthu
• Contents: Sensor networks in healthcare : a new paradigm for improving future global health -- Healthcare and accelerometry : applications for activity monitoring, recognition, and functional assessment -- Intra-body communication using contact electrodes in low-frequency bands -- The prospect of energy harvesting technologies for healthcare wireless sensor networks -- Addressing security, privacy, and efficiency issues in healthcare systems -- Flexible and wearable chemical sensors for non-invasive biomonitoring -- Monitoring walking in health and disease -- Motion sensors in osteoarthritis prospects and issues -- The challenges of monitoring physical activity in children with wearable sensor technologies -- Ambulatory and remote monitoring of Parkinson's disease motor symptoms -- Nocturnal sensing and intervention for assisted living of people with dementia -- Experiences in developing a wearable gait assistant for Parkinson's disease patients -- Designing low cost ECG sensor and monitor : practical considerations and measures -- Sensors, monitoring, and model-based data analysis in sports, exercise, and rehabilitation -- Robust monitoring of sport and exercise.
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 435 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 610.285; Biosensors; Wireless sensor networks; Biotelemetry; MEDICAL -- Allied Health Services -- Medical Technology; MEDICAL -- Biotechnology; MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice; MEDICAL -- Lasers in Medicine; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Biomedical; Biosensors; Biotelemetry; Wireless sensor networks; Biosensing Techniques -- instrumentation; Telemetry -- methods; Equipment Design; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781439821824; 1439821828
• Related ISBNs: 9781439821817; 143982181X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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