Textile-based body sensor networks and biomedical computing for healthcare applications

Abstract

Integrating body sensors with electronic textiles will be a great solution to realize the ubiquitous noninvasive health monitoring in people's daily life. However, developing textile-based body sensor networks poses significant challenges for the sensor and senor network design such as miniaturization of sensors, integration of radio integrated circuits (ICs) and modules with bodyworn antennas, energy consumption minimization, and so on. In the chapter, the challenges of designing electronic textile-based body sensor networks are discussed, and strategies and solutions to overcome the problems are proposed. To demonstrate the applicability of textile-based body sensor networks, the infant monitoring system will be illustrated.