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Unobstructive Body Area Networks (BAN) for Efficient Movement Monitoring

Sensors, 2012
The technological advances in medical sensors, low-power microelectronics and miniaturization, wireless communications and networks have enabled the appearance of a new generation of wireless sensor networks: the so-called wireless body area networks ...
António Pereira, Florentino Fdez-Riverola, Filipe Felisberto, Nuno Costa   +3 more
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Toward Wireless Implantable Robotic Systems Driven by Magnetic Field for Personalized Therapy

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Robotic materials are playing an increasingly vital role in enabling sensing and actuation at small scales. This perspective highlights recent advances in magnetic materials and magnetically actuated devices for wireless sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting toward implantable robotic systems for closed‐loop therapy.
Yusheng Wang, Ruijian Ge, Xiaoguang Dong
wiley   +1 more source

Thermal-Aware Multiconstrained Intrabody QoS Routing for Wireless Body Area Networks

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2014
Wireless body area networks (WBANs) can be formed including implanted biosensors for health monitoring and diagnostic purposes. However, implanted biosensors could cause thermal damages on human tissue as it exhibits temperature rise due to wireless ...
Muhammad Mostafa Monowar, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, Fuad Bajaber, Md. Abdul Hamid, Atif Alamri   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Anonymous Mutual Authenticated Key Agreement Scheme for Wearable Sensors in Wireless Body Area Networks

Applied Sciences, 2018
The advancement of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) have led to significant progress in medical and health care systems. However, such networks still suffer from major security and privacy threats, especially for the data collected in medical or health
Chien-Ming Chen, Bing Xiang, Tsu-Yang Wu, King-Hang Wang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Survey of main challenges (security and privacy) in wireless body area networks for healthcare applications

, 2017
Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a new trend in the technology that provides remote mechanism to monitor and collect patient’s health record data using wearable sensors.
Samaher Al-Janabi, Ibrahim Al-Shourbaji, Mohammad Shojafar, S. Shamshirband   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
wiley   +1 more source

A review of wireless sensor technologies and applications in agriculture and food industry: state of the art and current trends

, 2009
The aim of the present paper is to review the technical and scientific state of the art of wireless sensor technologies and standards for wireless communications in the Agri- Food sector.
Luis Ruiz-Garcia, Jose Ignacio Robla, Loredana Lunadei, Robla, Ignacio, Ignacio Robla, Lunadei, Loredana, Barreiro, Pilar, Pilar Barreiro, Ruiz-García, Luis, Robla Villalba, José Ignacio, Ruiz García, Luis, Barreiro Elorza, Pilar   +11 more
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McMAC: Towards a MAC Protocol with Multi-Constrained QoS Provisioning for Diverse Traffic in Wireless Body Area Networks

Sensors, 2012
The emergence of heterogeneous applications with diverse requirements forresource-constrained Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) poses significant challengesfor provisioning Quality of Service (QoS) with multi-constraints (delay and reliability ...
Muhammad Mostafa Monowar, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, Fuad Bajaber, Musaed Al-Hussein, Atif Alamri   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multimodal Locomotion in Insect‐Inspired Microrobots: A Review of Strategies for Aerial, Surface, Aquatic, and Interfacial Motion

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review identifies key design considerations for insect‐inspired microrobots capable of multimodal locomotion. To draw inspiration, biological and robotic strategies for moving in air, on water surfaces, and underwater are examined, along with approaches for crossing the air–water interface.
Mija Jovchevska, Kaushik Jayaram, Nicole Xu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

IEEE 802.15.6 standard in wireless body area networks from a healthcare point of view

, 2016
The first standard supporting communication in wireless body area networks (WBANs) is IEEE 802.15 Task Groups 6 (TG6). IEEE 802.15.6 is a standard for short-range, low power, and highly reliable wireless communication in, on and around the human body. It
Razzaque, M. A., Tomeo-Reyes, Inmaculada, Hussain, Nasir, Salehi, S. Ahmad, Inmaculada Tomeo-Reyes, Salehi Shahraki, Ahmad, Razzaque, M. A.; id_orcid, S. Ahmad Salehi, Nasir Hussain, M. A. Razzaque, Razzaque, Muhammed Mahbubur   +10 more
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