Papers by Keyword: Wearable Sensors

Abstract: Nowadays, China is stepping into an aging society, and most people care about their personal health with the Chinese economic development. Chronic-diseases have become the major threat to the elder people in China. In order to ensure a real-time health care for the elders, we propose health cloud platform with IoT for community health service. The platform includes IoT health services subsystem, health cloud application service subsystem and data management subsystem. The System development and service scheme is composed of six parts according to the function: front-end data acquisitioning module, message middleware, storage center, data mining center, medical graphics image processing center and presentation layer. The health cloud platform has two main functions: real time medical care technology and personalized health service. The successful deployment of health cloud can take demonstration for others application, and promote itself cloud computing technologies development.

Abstract: Three-dimensional (3D) lower limb kinematic and kinetic analysis based on ambulatory measurements is introduced in this paper. We developed a wireless sensor system composed of a mobile force plate system, 3D motion sensor units and a wireless data logger. 3D motions of body segment and triaxial ground reaction force (GRF) could be simultaneously measured using the system, and the data obtained from sensor units on thighs, shanks and feet could be transferred to a personal computer by wireless local area network (LAN). An inverse dynamics method was adopted to calculate triaxial joint moments. The accuracy of kinematics and kinetics (joint moments) assessment is validated against results obtained from the stationary measurement system based on camera movement analysis and force plates.

Abstract: This paper describes the early conception and latest developments of electroactive polymer (EAP)- based sensors, actuators and power sources, implemented as wearable devices for smart electronic textiles (e-textiles). Such textiles, functioning as multifunctional wearable human interfaces, are today considered relevant promoters of progress and useful tools in several biomedical field, such as biomonitoring, rehabilitation and telemedicine. This paper presents the more performing EAPbased devices developed by our lab and other research groups for sensing, actuating and energy harvesting, with reference to their already demonstrated or potential applicability to electronic textiles.