Wearable Sensors, 2nd Edition

Chapter 10: Power and data communication in wearable and implantable devices

Panagiotis Kassanos^a; Bruno Gil Rosa^a; Meysam Keshavarz^a; Guang-Zhong Yang^b    a The Hamlyn Centre, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London, London, UK^b Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Abstract

All wearable and implantable devices require power to operate, while they also need to have communication capabilities to transmit sensory data to secondary devices to aid clinical decision making, while often bidirectional communication is required for the proper control of the wearable or implantable device. Traditionally batteries are used for power. Batteries and supercapacitors are thus initially discussed, ...