Wireless Body Area Network & ITS Applications

WBAN based medical-health technologies have great potential for continuous monitoring in ambulatory settings, early detection of abnormal conditions, and supervised rehabilitation. They can provide patients with increased confidence and a better quality of life, and promote healthy behavior and health awareness. Continuous monitoring with early detection likely has the potential to provide patients with an increased level of confidence, which in turn may improve quality of life. In addition, ambulatory monitoring will allow patients to engage in normal activities of daily life, rather than staying at home or close to specialized medical services. Last but not least, inclusion of continuous monitoring data into medical databases will allow integrated analysis of all data to optimize individualized care and provide knowledge discovery through integrated data mining. Indeed, with the current technological trend toward integration of processors and wireless interfaces, we will soon have coin-sized intelligent sensors. They will be applied as skin patches, seamlessly integrated into a personal monitoring system, and worn for extended periods of time.