Wearable sensors are of interest for several application areas, most importantly for their potential to allow for the design of personal continuous health monitoring systems. For wearable sensors, flexibility is required and imperceptibility is desired. Wearable sensors must be robust to strain, motion, and environmental exposure. A number of different strategies have been utilized to achieve f...

The aim of this paper is to show how wearable sensors can be useful in health solutions, improving the continuous monitoring and management of patients. This paper is focused on the available solution for motion analysis, providing a description of human motion features which can be measured through the use of wearable sensors. Moreover, this paper presents an example of wearable solution used ...

The downsizing of computers has led to wearable computing devices that have attracted a great deal of attention. A wearable computer in wearable computing environments runs various applications with various sensors (wearable sensors). The beginning of this chapter describes the present situation with wearable sensing by giving examples of several applications using state-of-the-art technologies...

Wearable technology has become an important trend in consumer electronics in the past year. The miniaturization and mass production of myriad sensors have made possible the integration of sensors and output devices in wearable platforms. Despite the consumer focus of the wearable revolution some surgical applications are being developed. These fall into augmentative, assistive, and assessment f...

Security and energy efficient transmission are two important issues in wearable sensors. Health conditions of VIPs, soldiers etc. are of very important and high security has to be maintained. The transmission of the ECG signal using sensors to distant monitoring centers increases the power consumption due to the Bluetooth transceivers. Wearable sensors uses electrodes attached to the body of pa...

In the last years, gait phase partitioning has come to be a challenging research topic due to its impact on several applications related to gait technologies. A variety of sensors can be used to feed algorithms for gait phase partitioning, mainly classifiable as wearable or non-wearable. Among wearable sensors, footswitches or foot pressure insoles are generally considered as the gold standard;...