This paper briefly presents recent developments in the field of wearable sensors and
systems that are relevant to the area of normal and pathological human gait analysis. By …

Background: Sleep is essential for human health. Considerable effort has been put into
academic and industrial research and in the development of wireless body area networks for …

Improvements in life expectancy achieved by technological advancements in the recent
decades have increased the proportion of elderly people. Frailty of old age, susceptibility to …

Smart clothing plays a big role to foster innovation and to. boost health and well-being,
improving the quality of the life of people, especially when addressed to niche users with …

This paper presents a comprehensive literature review of current progress in the application
of state-of-the-art indoor positioning systems for telecare and telehealth monitoring. This …

Different solutions have been proposed to address orientation in indoor/outdoor
environments and among them, radio frequency identification (RFID)-based systems …

Privacy is often overlooked in Hong Kong nursing homes with the majority of elderly
residents living in shared bedrooms of three to five people. Only a few studies have used …

As the number of aged people is rapidly growing, the need for health and living care of aged
people living alone becomes imperative. The telecare systems are able to provide flexible …

As Wireless Sensor Networks are penetrating into the industrial domain, many research
opportunities are emerging. One such essential and challenging application is that of node …

Independent living of elderly persons in their homes requires support that can be provided
with modern assistive technologies. Monitoring of elderly persons behaviour delivers …