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Wireless sensor networks for healthcare applications / Terrance J. Dishongh, Michael McGrath.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Artech House, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781596933064
  • 1596933062
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Wireless sensor networks for healthcare applications.DDC classification:
  • 681.2 22
LOC classification:
  • TK7872.D48 D565 2010eb
NLM classification:
  • 2010 B-979
  • W 26.55.C7
Other classification:
  • 44.17
  • 54.32
  • ZQ 3950
Online resources:
Contents:
Healthcare and the wireless sensor network -- Sensor network technologies -- Informing your design -- Technology selection -- Data collection and decision making -- Deploying in the field -- Clinical deployments of wireless sensor networks: gait -- Contextural awareness medication prompting field trials in homes -- Case study: social health -- Future of wireless sensor networks for healthcare.
Summary: "Unlike other books on wireless sensors networks, this unique reference focuses on methods of application, validation and testing based on real deployments of sensor networks in the clinical and home environments. Key topics include healthcare and wireless sensors, sensor network applications, designs of experiments using sensors, data collection and decision making, clinical deployment of wireless sensor networks, contextual awareness medication prompting field trials in homes, social health monitoring, and the future of wireless sensor networks in healthcare."--Publisher description.
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"Unlike other books on wireless sensors networks, this unique reference focuses on methods of application, validation and testing based on real deployments of sensor networks in the clinical and home environments. Key topics include healthcare and wireless sensors, sensor network applications, designs of experiments using sensors, data collection and decision making, clinical deployment of wireless sensor networks, contextual awareness medication prompting field trials in homes, social health monitoring, and the future of wireless sensor networks in healthcare."--Publisher description.

Healthcare and the wireless sensor network -- Sensor network technologies -- Informing your design -- Technology selection -- Data collection and decision making -- Deploying in the field -- Clinical deployments of wireless sensor networks: gait -- Contextural awareness medication prompting field trials in homes -- Case study: social health -- Future of wireless sensor networks for healthcare.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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