Body Sensor Networking, Design and Algorithms

15Conclusions and Suggestions for Future Research

15.1 Summary

This book has pursued four major objectives. First of all, the measurable and recordable biomarkers of human body are introduced. Physical, physiological, mental, and biological indicators have footsteps in many living human recordings. Hence, further to a brief introduction of how data look and how clinically important the underlying information for disease diagnosis are, human body measurable and recordable biomarkers are presented. Second, a wide spectrum of sensors, sensor technologies, and their available platforms are reviewed and their applications discussed. Power consumptions and wireless communication capability are the two important aspects of using these sensors in a body sensor network (BSN) domain. This implies solving the problem of energy harvesting, too. As the third objective, signal processing and machine learning techniques are presented to recover far more information than what could be deciphered by expert clinician naked eyes.

Finally, wireless communications between various points of a BSN, employing different short-range communication strategies, systems, protocols, and routing algorithms, are explored for different sensor arrangement scenarios. The importance of electronics and integrated circuit devices plus their major role in developing sensors (and the associated motes), communication systems, and networks must be emphasised with high service quality, safety, and security. The overall ...