Wireless Sensor Network for Wearable Physiological Monitoring

Wearable physiological monitoring system consists of an array of sensors embedded into the fabric of the wearer to continuously monitor the physiological parameters and transmit wireless to a remote monitoring station. At the remote monitoring station the data is correlated to study the overall health status of the wearer. In the conventional wearable physiological monitoring system, the sensors are integrated at specific locations on the vest and are interconnected to the wearable data acquisition hardware by wires woven into the fabric. The drawbacks associated with these systems are the cables woven in the fabric pickup noise such as power line interference and signals from nearby radiating sources and thereby corrupting the physiological signals. Also repositioning the sensors in the fabric is difficult once integrated. The problems can be overcome by the use of physiological sensors with miniaturized electronics to condition, process, digitize and wireless transmission integrated ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: JNW
• Authors: Poondi Srinivasan Pandian, Kadavath Peedikayil Safeer, Pragati Gupta, Doddamallur Thirumala Iyengar Shakunthala, B. S. Sundersheshu, Vinod Chidambar Padaki
• Keywords: JNW 2008, Physiological, Remote Monitoring Station, Wearable Physiological Monitoring