title: Detecting vital signs with wearable wireless sensors.
abstract: The emergence of wireless technologies and advancements in on-body sensor design can enable change in the conventional health-care system, replacing it with wearable health-care systems, centred on the individual. Wearable monitoring systems can provide continuous physiological data, as well as better information regarding the general health of individuals. Thus, such vital-sign monitoring systems will reduce health-care costs by disease prevention and enhance the quality of life with disease management. In this paper, recent progress in non-invasive monitoring technologies for chronic disease management is reviewed. In particular, devices and techniques for monitoring blood pressure, blood glucose levels, cardiac activity and respiratory activity are discussed; in addition, on-body propagation issues for multiple sensors are presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK. tuba.yilmaz@elec.qmul.ac.uk
authors.forename: Tuba
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yilmaz
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Foster
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hao
mesh_terms: D015374:Biosensing Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015190:Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D058998:Remote Sensing Technology / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation; D055986:Vital Signs / Q000502:physiology; D059015:Wireless Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014953:Wrist