Wireless Body Area Networks and IoT for Medical Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Wearables".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 515
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Interests: new sensing, communication technologies and computational intelligence for applications in health and sports
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The need for personalized health monitoring has been accelerated by the increasing public awareness of health issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The technologies for personalized health monitoring, such as wearables and portable diagnostic test kits, have become more commercialized. However, many challenges remain, in particular the need for rapid diagnostics, remote triage and, increasingly, remote rehabilitation and disease management. Monitoring forms a major aspect of these applications, and technologies such as wearables and devices are becoming digital, and can communicate and possess more sophisticated algorithms to deal with the data collected. The underlying technologies consist of networking devices so that data can be collected, and health statuses inferred.
Wireless body area networks (WBANs) are a technological framework of wearable sensors that monitor physical and physiological parameters of the human body. This technology allows applications such as personalized health monitoring, independent assisted living and new assistive technologies in aged care and disability. In addition to human monitoring, there is an emerging paradigm around interconnected medical devices that facilitate the next generation of telerehabilitation and digital health. Medical Internet of Things (IoT) or Healthcare IoT is generally taken to refer to the wireless networking of medical devices that can assist in long-term monitoring. Currently, there is continuing work to improve the connectivity of these devices, to integrate data with WBANs, and to increase operation lifetime while ensuring privacy and security are maintained.
This Special Issue focuses on new research in the following areas of WBANs and Medical IoT:
- New sensors and sensing techniques;
- Wireless communications including next-generation technologies such as 5G/6G;
- New healthcare applications that integrate WBAN and Medical IoT;
- Data fusion algorithms;
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence;
- Healthcare blockchain;
- Data privacy and security encryption;
- New portable energy sources and energy management algorithms.
Dr. Daniel Lai
Guest Editor
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