CBM370 WEARABLE DEVICES LTPC
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OBJECTIVES:
The student should be made to:
To know the hardware requirement of wearable systems
To understand the communication and security aspects in the
wearable devices
To know the applications of wearable devices in the field of medicine
UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO WEARABLE SYSTEMS AND SENSORS 9
Wearable Systems- Introduction, Need for Wearable Systems,
Drawbacks of Conventional Systems for Wearable Monitoring,
Applications of Wearable Systems, Types of Wearable Systems,
Components of wearable Systems. Sensors for wearable systems-
Inertia movement sensors, Respiration activity sensor, Inductive
plethysmography, Impedance plethysmography, pneumography,
Wearable ground reaction force sensor.
UNIT II SIGNAL PROCESSING AND ENERGY HARVESTING FOR WEARABLE
DEVICES 9
Wearability issues -physical shape and placement of sensor, Technical
challenges - sensor design, signal acquisition, sampling frequency for
reduced energy consumption, Rejection of irrelevant information. Power
Requirements- Solar cell, Vibration based, Thermal based, Human body as
a heat source for power generation, Hybrid thermoelectric photovoltaic
energy harvests, Thermopiles.
UNIT III WIRELESS HEALTH SYSTEMS 9
Need for wireless monitoring, Definition of Body area network,
BAN and Healthcare, Technical Challenges- System security and
reliability, BAN Architecture – Introduction, Wireless
communication Techniques.
UNIT IV SMART TEXTILE 9
Introduction to smart textile- Passive smart textile, active smart
textile. Fabrication Techniques- Conductive Fibres, Treated
Conductive Fibres, Conductive Fabrics, Conductive Inks.Case
study- smart fabric for monitoring biological parameters - ECG,
respiration.
UNIT V APPLICATIONS OF WEARABLE SYSTEMS 9
Medical Diagnostics, Medical Monitoring-Patients with chronic
disease, Hospital patients, Elderly patients, neural recording, Gait
analysis, Sports Medicine.
OUTCOMES:
On successful completion of this course, the student will be able to CO1:
Describe the concepts of wearable system.
CO2: Explain the energy harvestings in wearable device. CO3: Use
the concepts of BAN in health care.
CO4: Illustrate the concept of smart textile
CO5: Compare the various wearable devices in healthcare system
TEXT BOOKS
TOTAL PERIODS:45
1. Annalisa Bonfiglo and Danilo De Rossi, Wearable Monitoring
Systems, Springer, 2011
2. Zhang and Yuan-Ting, Wearable Medical Sensors and
Systems,Springer, 2013
3. Edward Sazonov and Micheal R Neuman, Wearable
Sensors: Fundamentals, Implementation and
Applications, Elsevier, 2014
4. Mehmet R. Yuce and JamilY.Khan, Wireless Body Area Networks
Technology, Implementation applications,Pan Stanford
Publishing Pte.Ltd, Singapore, 2012
REFERENCES
1. Sandeep K.S, Gupta, Tridib Mukherjee and Krishna Kumar
Venkatasubramanian, Body Area Networks Safety,
Security, and Sustainability, Cambridge University Press,
2013.
2. Guang-Zhong Yang, Body Sensor Networks, Springer, 2006.
