Recent Advances in Wearable Sensors for Health Monitoring

Author

Rodgers, Mary M. ; Pai, Vinay M. ; Conroy, Richard S.

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Biomed. Imaging & Bioeng., Nat. Inst. of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Volume

15

Issue

6

fYear

2015

fDate

Jun-15

Firstpage

3119

Lastpage

3126

Abstract

Wearable sensor technology continues to advance and provide significant opportunities for improving personalized healthcare. In recent years, advances in flexible electronics, smart materials, and low-power computing and networking have reduced barriers to technology accessibility, integration, and cost, unleashing the potential for ubiquitous monitoring. This paper discusses recent advances in wearable sensors and systems that monitor movement, physiology, and environment, with a focus on applications for Parkinson´s disease, stroke, and head and neck injuries.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; body area networks; diseases; electric sensing devices; flexible electronics; health care; injuries; intelligent materials; medical computing; patient monitoring; ubiquitous computing; Parkinson disease; environment monitoring; flexible electronics; head injuries; health monitoring; low-power computing; movement monitoring; neck injuries; personalized healthcare improvement; physiology monitoring; smart materials; stroke injuries; technology accessibility; ubiquitous monitoring; wearable sensors; Accelerometers; Biomedical monitoring; Medical services; Monitoring; Sensor systems; Wearable sensors; Wearable sensors; accelerometers; biomedical and environmental monitoring; patient monitoring; sensor systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Sensors Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1530-437X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSEN.2014.2357257

Filename

6899605