title: Design of a wearable bio-patch for monitoring patient's temperature.
abstract: New communication technologies allow us developing useful and more practical medical applications, in particular for ambulatory monitoring. NFC communication has the advantages of low powering and low influence range area, what makes this technology suitable for health applications. This work presents an explanation of the design process of planar NFC antennas in a wearable biopatch. The problem of optimizing the communication distance is addressed. Design of a biopatch for continuous temperature monitoring and experimental results obtained wearing this biopatch during daily activities are presented.
authors.forename: Jose M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Vicente
authors.forename: Ernesto
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Avila-Navarro
authors.forename: Carlos G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Juan
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Garcia
authors.forename: Jose M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Sabater-Navarro
mesh_terms: D001831:Body Temperature; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D017097:Electric Impedance; D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D004581:Electronics; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012984:Software; D013686:Telemetry; D013821:Thermometers