This article explores the importance of wearable and remote technologies in healthcare. The
focus highlights its potential in continuous monitoring, examines the specificity of the issue …

Sensors suitable for wearable devices have many special characteristics compared to other
sensors, such as stability, sensitivity, sensor volume, biocompatibility, and so on. With the …

The precordial mechanical vibrations generated by cardiac contractions have a rich
frequency spectrum. While the lowest frequencies can be palpated, the higher infrasonic …

Voluntary hand movements are usually impaired after a cerebral stroke, affecting millions of
people per year worldwide. Recently, the use of hand exoskeletons for assistance and motor …

Cardiac monitoring can be performed by means of an accelerometer attached to a subject's
chest, which produces the Seismocardiography (SCG) signal. Detection of SCG heartbeats …

Forcecardiography (FCG) is a novel technique that measures the local forces induced on the
chest wall by the mechanical activity of the heart. Specific piezoresistive or piezoelectric …

A heartbeat generates tiny mechanical vibrations, mainly due to the opening and closing of
heart valves. These vibrations can be recorded by accelerometers and gyroscopes applied …

Forcecardiography (FCG) is a novel technique that records the weak forces induced on the
chest wall by cardio-respiratory activity, by using specific force sensors. FCG sensors feature …

Pulse waves (PWs) are mechanical waves that propagate from the ventricles through the
whole vascular system as brisk enlargements of the blood vessels' lumens, caused by …

Seismocardiography (SCG) is largely regarded as the state-of-the-art technique for
continuous, long-term monitoring of cardiac mechanical activity in wearable applications …