Abstract

Wireless body area sensing networks have the potential to revolutionize health care in the near term. The coupling of biosensors with a wireless infrastructure enables the real-time monitoring of an individual's health and related behaviors continuously, as well as the provision of realtime feedback with nimble, adaptive, and personalized interventions. The KNOWME platform is reviewed, and lessons learned from system integration, optimization, and in-field deployment are provided. KNOWME is an endto- end body area sensing system that integrates off-the-shelf sensors with a Nokia N95 mobile phone to continuously monitor and analyze the biometric signals of a subject. KNOWME development by an interdisciplinary team and in-laboratory, as well as in-field deployment studies, employing pediatric obesity as a case study condition to monitor and evaluate physical activity, have revealed four major challenges: (1 …

Date

2012

Authors

Urbashi Mitra, B Adar Emken, Sangwon Lee, Ming Li, Viktor Rozgic, Gautam Thatte, Harshvardhan Vathsangam, Daphney-Stavroula Zois, Murali Annavaram, Shrikanth Narayanan, Marco Levorato, Donna Spruijt-Metz, Gaurav Sukhatme

Journal

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volume

50

Issue

5

Pages

116-125

Publisher

IEEE