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The last decade has witnessed a rapid increase of interest in new sensing and monitoring devices including wearable wireless devices and sensor networks for several personal applications such as healthcare, well being & lifestyle, protection and safety. Smart Wearable Systems (SWS) are sensor-based integrated systems on body-worn platforms offering pervasive personalized solutions for continuous, non-invasive monitoring of body and external parameters, including feedback to the user. Several wearable solutions based on perimetric fixing using the body segments and the circular body part (e.g. head, arm, wrist and leg) are available today either in R&D prototype (the majority) or commercial products. Furthermore, new developments emerging from the miniaturization of electronics and materials processing have being leading to the integration of multiple smart functions into textiles without being a burden. The paper presents and discusses the main issues involved in the development of the area i.e. user requirements, technologies, research and development of integrated systems as well as future challenges to be met in order to reach a market with reliable and high value-added products.
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Lymberis, A. (2010). Advanced Wearable Sensors and Systems Enabling Personal Applications. In: Lay-Ekuakille, A., Mukhopadhyay, S.C. (eds) Wearable and Autonomous Biomedical Devices and Systems for Smart Environment. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 75. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15687-8_13
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