Body Sensor Networking, Design and Algorithms

Preface

The increasing multiplicity of data gathering from living systems both in volume and modalities provides a wealth of information. From a usefulness perspective it becomes imperative to understand the mechanisms of such systems where the information is kept and processed efficiently and robustly. These mechanisms are, by and large, highly complex and exquisite and require effective and robust sensors and sensor networks for data collection, and specific frameworks for communication and processing.

Sensors and sensor networks are perhaps the most dominating and fast-growing areas of research and development nowadays and cover a vast range of applications from automation to medication. New technologies make available new sensors on a continual basis, while more advanced mobile and stationary computing platforms become available to cater for better and faster recording, archiving, mining, processing, and recognition of the data of various modalities.

Over the past decade miniaturised wearable devices, particularly those embedded within mobile systems such as handphones, have attracted considerable interest. Such devices allow for the measurement of physical, behavioural, and physiological information from the human body mainly for monitoring patients, athletes, drivers, and many others.

The multiplicity of body (and area) sensors and their functionalities have rendered the area a highly significant research topic and, of course, raised more questions to be answered and ...