title: A Survey on Wireless Body Area Networks for eHealthcare Systems in Residential Environments.
abstract: Current progress in wearable and implanted health monitoring technologies has strong potential to alter the future of healthcare services by enabling ubiquitous monitoring of patients. A typical health monitoring system consists of a network of wearable or implanted sensors that constantly monitor physiological parameters. Collected data are relayed using existing wireless communication protocols to a base station for additional processing. This article provides researchers with information to compare the existing low-power communication technologies that can potentially support the rapid development and deployment of WBAN systems, and mainly focuses on remote monitoring of elderly or chronically ill patients in residential environments.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA. mghamari@utep.edu.
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ghamari
authors.affiliation: Department to Biomedical Engineering, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AY, UK. b.janko@reading.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Balazs
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Janko
authors.affiliation: Department to Biomedical Engineering, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AY, UK. r.s.sherratt@reading.ac.uk.
authors.forename: R Simon
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Sherratt
authors.affiliation: Department to Biomedical Engineering, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AY, UK. w.s.harwin@reading.ac.uk.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Harwin
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bristol University, Bristol BS8 1UB, UK. r.j.piechocki@bristol.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Piechockic
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA. cinna@ou.edu.
authors.forename: Cinna
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Soltanpur
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015374:Biosensing Techniques / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D000076251:Wearable Electronic Devices / Q000639:trends; D059015:Wireless Technology / Q000639:trends*
keywords: biomedical; eHealthcare; information and communications technology (ICT); telemonitoring; wireless body area network (WBAN); wireless technology