A WBAN for Human Movement Kinematics and ECG Measurements

Ahmed Baraka, Ahmed Shokry, Ihab Omar, Saged Kamel, Tarek Fouad, Mohamad Abou El-Nasr, Heba Shaban

Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport (AASTMT), P.O. Box 1029, Abu Kir Campus, Alexandria, Egypt.

DOI: 10.4236/etsn.2012.12004                

Abstract

Biomedical applications of body area networks (BANs) are evolving, where taking periodic medical readings of patients via means wireless technologies at home or in the office will aid physicians to periodically supervise the patient’s medical status without having to see the patient. Thus, one important objective of BANs is to provide the doctor with the medical readings that can be collected electronically without being in close proximity to the patient. This is done through the measurement of the patient’s physiological signals via means of wearable sensors. This paper investigates wireless BAN cooperation via actual measurements of human movement kinematics and electrocardiogram (ECG), which are believed to provide patients with easy healthcare for continuous health-monitoring. The collected information will be processed using specially designed software, which in turn will enable the patient to send a full medical chart to the physician’s electronic device. In this way, physicians will have the ability to monitor their patients more efficiently.

Keywords

Body Area Networks (BANs); Electrocardiogram (ECG); Human Gait; and Movement Kinematics

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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