Wearable computing is an active research area involves study of user interface design, augmented reality, and pattern recognition. A wearable computing consists of unobtrusive, mobile, small, body wearable devices interacting with each other to perform a particular task on their own or controlled by user.
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A Survey on Health Care Services Using Wireless Sensor Networks
Sunilkumar S. Manvi (REVA Institute of Technology and Management, India) and Manjula R. B. (Manjula R. B.REVA Institute of Technology and Management, India)
Copyright: © 2013
|Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch031
Abstract
Although the present technology has aided in development of high-technology-based disease detection machines, potential medicines and devices, the well-being of the individual remains a challenge. Human beings are struggling to control diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, asthma, hypertension, insomnia, heart disease, and diabetes due to non-availability of patient’s real-time data for comprehensive study and analysis. Smart health centre environments represent the evolutionary developmental step towards intelligent health care. The Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) with pervasive and ubiquitous computing may be a solution for this predicament. WSNs are a key technology for ambient assisted living. The concept of WSN is used to measure the various health parameters like blood pressure, blood clot, allergy, ECG, cholesterol, RBCs, etc. In this chapter, the authors highlight the importance of WSNs with respect to health care services and discuss some of its challenging applications for diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, asthma, and heart disease. They delineate the challenges that researchers face in this area that may lead to future research.