Wireless Body Sensor Networks for Patient Health Monitoring

Abstract

Remote medical health management is the most attractive research field in the domain of WSN. Wireless body area network (WBAN) produces constant, unbroken observation of the patient. Basically, WBAN acts as the appliance of internet of things (IoT) which offers an opportunity to a medical examiner to supervise chronic disease. Dissimilar protocols, guidelines, policies have been developed and developing in the last decade. In WBAN, minute power sensor nodes deployed toward capturing unusual essential signs of patients at home, hospitals in support of analysis purpose and furthermore advise suitable procedures. The main goal of this chapter is to introduce a complete and advanced understanding of WBANs, energy savings methods, human activity monitoring procedures, challenges and research issues, applications, and a comprehensive literature survey.