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Innovations in Wearable Body Area Networks and IOT Systems for Medical Applications

A special issue of Applied System Innovation (ISSN 2571-5577). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Informatics and Healthcare Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 8214

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Dr. Albert Sabban

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Department of Electrical Engineering, ORT Braude College of Engineering, Karmiel 2161002, Israel
Interests: wearable systems and antennas; communication systems; medical devices and applications; system engineering; microwave technologies; wearable IoT and medical devices; Iot
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The increasing demand for lower-cost, more convenient, and smarter healthcare solutions has resulted in extensive research that has been dedicated to the development of novel smart healthcare and IOT medical systems. This Special Issue is intended to present innovations in healthcare systems. This Special Issue will provide the technical details of modern smart healthcare systems. The information presented in this Special Issue is intended to present new trends and technologies in the area of smart healthcare systems. Smart healthcare devices are equipped with sensors such as thermometers and heart rate monitors. The sensors monitor and help to maintain patients’ physical conditions. The collected medical data may be transmitted to medical centers for further diagnosis and healthcare assistance. Rapid advances in developing and implementing wearable sensors, actuators, Internet of Things (IoT), and intelligent algorithms provides the tools, potential utility, and the unique advantages that can be used to develop smart healthcare devices and rehabilitation systems. In smart medical centers, wireless sensors are attached to patients to collect real-time medical information, such as their fever, heartbeat, sweat, oxygen saturation readings, and other medical information. The medical record of a patient can be stored on a cloud to be accessed by physicians and medical centers, whenever it is needed and from anywhere. This Special Issue will be of great interest to biomedical researchers and engineers, wearable technologies researchers, communication systems researchers and engineers, quantitative management, system engineering, and medical center management.

Moreover, three-dimensional printers can be applied to print patient implants and organs based on information provided by healthcare devices.

This Special Issue will combine state-of-the-art research, practical applications, and smart technologies. This Special Issue will bring together researchers and engineers to discuss various research and development achievements in the field of medical sensors for smart healthcare and rehabilitation applications, based on intelligent IoT systems.

Potential contributions to this Special Issue include work related to novel design and development of biological sensors, medical IoT systems, and health monitoring systems. This Special Issue will provide opportunities for researchers and engineers to publish their novel innovations in the areas of medical devices, smart IoT systems, medical sensors, actuators, medical data processing, in the context of biomedical healthcare and rehabilitation applications. These contributions could address state-of-the-art developments and methodologies, as well as applications of wearable medical devices and healthcare systems.

In particular, topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

  • Innovations in wearable system technologies;
  • Body area networks (BAN);
  • Innovations in wireless body area networks (WBAN);
  • Wearable and implantable medical sensors;
  • IoT systems for medical applications;
  • Innovations in smart technologies for medical applications;
  • IoT-based healthcare systems.

Dr. Albert Sabban
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied System Innovation is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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Wireless Motion Capture System for Upper Limb Rehabilitation
by Ourania Tsilomitrou, Konstantinos Gkountas, Nikolaos Evangeliou and Evangelos Dermatas
Appl. Syst. Innov. 2021, 4(1), 14; https://doi.org/10.3390/asi4010014 - 17 Feb 2021
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This work is devoted to the presentation of a Wireless Sensor System implementation for upper limb rehabilitation to function as a complementary system for a patient’s progress supervision during rehabilitation exercises. A cost effective motion capture sensor node composed by a 9 Degrees-of-Freedom [...] Read more.
This work is devoted to the presentation of a Wireless Sensor System implementation for upper limb rehabilitation to function as a complementary system for a patient’s progress supervision during rehabilitation exercises. A cost effective motion capture sensor node composed by a 9 Degrees-of-Freedom (DoF) Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) is mounted on the patient’s upper limb segments and sends wirelessly the corresponding measured signals to a base station. The sensor orientation and the upper limb individual segments movement in 3-Dimensional (3D) space are derived by processing the sensors’ raw data. For the latter purpose, a biomechanical model which resembles that of a kinematic model of a robotic arm based on the Denavit-Hartenberg (DH) configuration is used to approximate in real time the upper limb movements. The joint angles of the upper limb model are estimated from the extracted sensor node’s orientation angles. The experimental results of a human performing common rehabilitation exercises using the proposed motion capture sensor node are compared with the ones using an off-the-shelf sensor. This comparison results to very low error rates with the root mean square error (RMSE) being about 0.02 m. Full article
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New Compact Wearable Metamaterials Circular Patch Antennas for IoT, Medical and 5G Applications
by Albert Sabban
Appl. Syst. Innov. 2020, 3(4), 42; https://doi.org/10.3390/asi3040042 - 8 Oct 2020
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The development of compact passive and active wearable circular patch metamaterials antennas for communication, Internet of Things (IoT) and biomedical systems is presented in this paper. Development of compact efficient low-cost wearable antennas are one of the most significant challenges in development of [...] Read more.
The development of compact passive and active wearable circular patch metamaterials antennas for communication, Internet of Things (IoT) and biomedical systems is presented in this paper. Development of compact efficient low-cost wearable antennas are one of the most significant challenges in development of wearable communication, IoT and medical systems. Moreover, the advantage of an integrated compact low-cost feed network is attained by integrating the antenna feed network with the antennas on the same printed board. The efficiency of communication systems may be increased by using efficient passive and active antennas. The system dynamic range may be improved by connecting amplifiers to the printed antenna feed line. Design, design considerations, computed and measured results of wearable circular patch meta-materials antennas with high efficiency for 5G, IoT and biomedical applications are presented in this paper. The circular patch antennas electrical parameters on the human body were analyzed by using commercial full-wave software. The circular patch metamaterial wearable antennas are compact and flexible. The directivity and gain of the antennas with Circular Split-Ring Resonators (CSRR) is higher by 2.5dB to 3dB than the antennas without CSRR. The resonant frequency of the antennas without CSRR is higher by 6% to 9% than the antennas with CSRR. The computed and measured bandwidth of the stacked circular patch wearable antenna with CSRR for IoT and medical applications is around 12%, for S11 lover than −6dB. The gain of the circular patch wearable antenna with CSRR is around 8dBi. Full article
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