Wearable Sensors: Fundamentals, Implementation and Applications

This book aims to provide an understanding of how to design and work with wearable sensors. It covers a wide variety of topics associated with the development and application of various wearable sensors and provides an overview and coherent summary of many aspects of current wearable sensor technology. Both industry professionals and academic researchers will benefit from this comprehensive reference which contains the most up-to-date information on the advancement of lightweight hardware, energy harvesting, signal processing, and wireless communications and networks. Practical problems with smart fabrics, biomonitoring and health informatics are all addressed, as well as end user centric design, ethical and safety issues. --