Skip to main content
  • Book
  • © 2010

Wearable and Autonomous Biomedical Devices and Systems for Smart Environment

Issues and Characterization

  • State of the art in wearable and autonomous biomedical devices and systems for Smart Environment
  • Well structured book covering the hot topic of wearable technical devices
  • Written by experts in the field

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE, volume 75)

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.

Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Design and Integration of Fall and Mobility Monitors in Health Monitoring Platforms

    • Pepijn van de Ven, Alan Bourke, John Nelson, Hugh O’Brien
    Pages 1-29
  3. Smart Nano-systems for Tumour Cellular Diagnoses and Therapies

    • Conversano Francesco, Greco Antonio, Casciaro Sergio
    Pages 31-54
  4. Miniature Differential Mobility Spectrometry (DMS) Advances towards Portable Autonomous Health Diagnostic Systems

    • Weixiang Zhao, Abhinav Bhushan, Michael Schivo, Nicholas J. Kenyon, Cristina E. Davis
    Pages 55-73
  5. Nonlinear Dynamics, Materials and Integrated Devices for Energy Harvesting in Wearable Sensors

    • Bruno Andò, Salvatore Baglio, Marco Ferrari, Vittorio Ferrari, Luca Gammaitoni, Carlo Trigona
    Pages 97-113
  6. Wearable Sensors for Foetal Movement Monitoring in Low Risk Pregnancies

    • Luís M. Borges, Pedro Araújo, António S. Lebres, Andreia Rente, Rita Salvado, Fernando J. Velez et al.
    Pages 115-136
  7. An Embedded System for EEG Acquisition and Processing for Brain Computer Interface Applications

    • A. Palumbo, F. Amato, B. Calabrese, M. Cannataro, G. Cocorullo, A. Gambardella et al.
    Pages 137-154
  8. Micro Systems for the Mechanical Characterization of Isolated Biological Cells: State-of-the-Art

    • Denis Desmaële, Mehdi Boukallel, Stéphane Régnier
    Pages 155-175
  9. On-Body Chemical Sensors for Monitoring Sweat

    • Shirley Coyle, Fernando Benito-Lopez, Robert Byrne, Dermot Diamond
    Pages 177-193
  10. A Self-controlled Master-Slave Robot and Its Application for Upper Limb Rehabilitation

    • Tao Liu, Chunguang Li, Yoshio Inoue, Kyoko Shibata
    Pages 219-235
  11. Fall Detection of Patients Using 3-Axis Accelerometer System

    • Petar Mostarac, Hrvoje Hegeduš, Marko Jurčević, Roman Malarić, Aimé Lay-Ekuakille
    Pages 259-275
  12. Unobtrusive and Non-invasive Sensing Solutions for On-Line Physiological Parameters Monitoring

    • Octavian Postolache, Pedro Silva Girão, Eduardo Pinheiro, Gabriela Postolache
    Pages 277-314
  13. Wearable Assistive Devices for the Blind

    • Ramiro Velázquez
    Pages 331-349
  14. Intrabody Communication in Biotelemetry

    • Željka Lučev, Igor Krois, Mario Cifrek
    Pages 351-368
  15. SPINE-HRV: A BSN-Based Toolkit for Heart Rate Variability Analysis in the Time-Domain

    • Alessandro Andreoli, Raffaele Gravina, Roberta Giannantonio, Paola Pierleoni, Giancarlo Fortino
    Pages 369-389

About this book

This book is dedicated to wearable and autonomous systems, including devices, offers to variety of users, namely, master degree students, researchers and practitioners, An opportunity of a dedicated and a deep approach in order to improve their knowledge in this specific field. The book draws the attention about interesting aspects, as for instance, advanced wearable sensors for enabling applications, solutions for arthritic patients in their limited and conditioned movements, wearable gate analysis, energy harvesting, physiological parameter monitoring, communication, pathology detection , etc..

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento d’Ingegneria dell’innovazione, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

    Aimé Lay-Ekuakille

  • School of Engineering and Advanced Technology (SEAT), Massey University (Turitea Campus), Palmerston North, New Zealand

    Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay

Bibliographic Information

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access