Gait analysis using wearable sensors is an inexpensive, convenient, and efficient manner of providing useful information for multiple health-related applications. As a clinical tool applied in the rehabilitation and diagnosis of medical conditions and sport activities, gait analysis using wearable sensors shows great prospects. The current paper reviews available wearable sensors and ambulatory...

Introduction: Wearable devices can provide new ways of sensing users’ contexts [1]. Since they can be worn, wearable devices tend to have a higher context recognition rate than existing personal mobile devices [2]. For that reason, wearable devices can provide new functions based on context recognition to improve the usability and efficiency of services [3]. Form factors and sensors are used to...

Human gait is one of the biometric methods used for identifying humans unobtrusively and from a distance. Gait analysis using wearable sensors is a low-cost, handy and capable way of providing valuable information for many applications. Gait analysis using wearable sensors shows great prospects in biometrics as well as in medical applications. With the development of sensor technology and the a...

Wearable physiological monitoring system consists of an array of sensors embedded into the fabric of the wearer to continuously monitor the physiological parameters and transmit wireless to a remote monitoring station. At the remote monitoring station the data is correlated to study the overall health status of the wearer. In the conventional wearable physiological monitoring system, the sensor...

CONTEXT Wearable performance devices and sensors are becoming more readily available to the general population and athletic teams. Advances in technology have allowed individual endurance athletes, sports teams, and physicians to monitor functional movements, workloads, and biometric markers to maximize performance and minimize injury. Movement sensors include pedometers, accelerometers/gyrosco...

A Wearable Electromyography device includes the advantage of Electromyography (EMG) sensors and provides a wired or wireless human machine interface (HMI) for interacting with computing systems and attached devices associated with electrical signals generated by specific movement of the patient’s muscles. Following initial automated self-calibration and positional localization processes, measur...

Wearable sensors can be used to monitor many interesting parameters about the wearer’s physiology and environment, with important applications in personal health and well-being, sports performance and personal safety. Wearable chemical sensors can monitor the status of the wearer by accessing body fluids, such as sweat, in an unobtrusive manner. They can also be used to protect the wearer from ...

This paper describes wireless wearable and ambient sensors that cooperate to monitor a person's vital signs such as heart rate and blood pressure during daily activities. Each wearable sensor is attached on different parts of the body. The wearable sensors require a high sampling rate and time synchronization to provide a precise analysis of the received signals. The trigger signal for synchron...