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.
['Mohammad Ghamari', 'Balazs Janko', 'Robert Simon Sherratt', 'William S. Harwin', 'Robert Piechockic', 'Cinna Soltanpur']
A Survey on Wireless Body Area Networks for eHealthcare Systems in Residential Environments