The Emerging Wireless Body Area Network on Android Smartphones: A Review

2nd Annual Applied Science and Engineering Conference

工业技术;自然科学

Puspitaningayu, P.^1 ; Widodo, A.^1 ; Yundra, E.^1

Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Surabaya, Indonesia^1

关键词: Android devices;    Daily activity;    Environment sensing;    Epidemic control;    Process data;    Systematic literature review;    Tremor detection;    Wireless body area network;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/288/1/012116/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/288/1/012116

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Our society now has driven us into an era where almost everything can be digitally monitored and controlled including the human body. The growth of wireless body area network (WBAN), as a specific scope of sensor networks which mounted or attached to human body also developing rapidly. It allows people to monitor their health and several daily activities. This study is intended to review the trend of WBAN especially on Android, one of the most popular smartphone platforms. A systematic literature review is concerned to the following parameters: the purpose of the device and/or application, the type of sensors, the type of Android device, and its connectivity. Most of the studies were more concern to healthcare or medical monitoring systems: blood pressure, electro cardiograph, tremor detection, etc. On the other hand, the rest of them aimed for activity tracker, environment sensing, and epidemic control. After all, those studies shown that not only Android can be a powerful platform to process data from various sensors but also smartphones can be a good alternative to develop WBANs for medical and other daily applications.