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Review
. 2012 Oct 16;12(10):13907-46.
doi: 10.3390/s121013907.

A review on architectures and communications technologies for wearable health-monitoring systems

Víctor Custodio  1 , Francisco J Herrera, Gregorio López, José Ignacio Moreno
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Review

A review on architectures and communications technologies for wearable health-monitoring systems

Víctor Custodio et al. Sensors (Basel). .

Abstract

Nowadays society is demanding more and more smart healthcare services that allow monitoring patient status in a non-invasive way, anywhere and anytime. Thus, healthcare applications are currently facing important challenges guided by the u-health (ubiquitous health) and p-health (pervasive health) paradigms. New emerging technologies can be combined with other widely deployed ones to develop such next-generation healthcare systems. The main objective of this paper is to review and provide more details on the work presented in "LOBIN: E-Textile and Wireless-Sensor-Network-Based Platform for Healthcare Monitoring in Future Hospital Environments", published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, as well as to extend and update the comparison with other similar systems. As a result, the paper discusses the main advantages and disadvantages of using different architectures and communications technologies to develop wearable systems for pervasive healthcare applications.

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General Communications Architecture for WHMS.
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Communications Technologies and Communications Segments.
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System Architecture.
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Healthcare Monitoring Subsystem Block Diagram.
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Physiological Sensors.
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(a) Wearable Data Acquisition Device (WDAD) (b) Healthcare Monitoring Wireless Transmission Board (WTB).
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Overall Location Subsystem architecture.
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Overall WCI Subsystem architecture.
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Management Subsystem client-server architecture.
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(A) Distribution Point network test (B) Test results for DP network topology.
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Figure 11.
Gateway network test.
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Figure 12.
Pilot scheme schematics.
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Figure 13.
Real-time ECG.
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