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Review
. 2016 Jun 7;16(6):831.
doi: 10.3390/s16060831.

A Survey on Wireless Body Area Networks for eHealthcare Systems in Residential Environments

Mohammad Ghamari  1 , Balazs Janko  2 , R Simon Sherratt  3 , William Harwin  4 , Robert Piechockic  5 , Cinna Soltanpur  6
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A Survey on Wireless Body Area Networks for eHealthcare Systems in Residential Environments

Mohammad Ghamari et al. Sensors (Basel). .

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.

Keywords: biomedical; eHealthcare; information and communications technology (ICT); telemonitoring; wireless body area network (WBAN); wireless technology.

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The four-layer typical architecture of an eHealthcare system.
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Intra-body communications combined with existing low-power protocols.
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