Wearable Reconfigurable Antenna

Printed antennas are designed for various applications in recent years. The latest development of antennas are wearable antennas; these wearable antennas are playing a major role in the energy harvesting mechanisms, patient monitoring systems, and military applications. In this chapter a reconfigurable wearable antenna is proposed. Reconfigurable wearable antennas are able to operate in both modes on body and off body. These antennas are reconfigured from one frequency to another frequency depending upon the requirement. Three types of reconfigurable antenna modes are designed and analyzed in the chapter. Frequency reconfiguration with off body mode and on body mode, frequency reconfiguration between inside receiver and outside interrogator, and frequency reconfiguration with different substrate conditions. The choice of frequency bands are WBAN and other wireless application bands. Different switches are used to control the frequencies.

An Integrated Incubator Module for Pediatric Patient Monitoring Systems

Patient monitoring systems (PMS) is a method used for rating and controlling of the treatments and disorders. While PMS offers as wearable technologies for adults; it is used for adapting to incubator modules to ensure continuous and instant monitoring for newborn babies at the pediatric level. The purpose of this study is to make a pediatric PMS with the ability to be integrated to all type of classical incubators, and monitoring the conditions of the newborn babies with various sensors. It is designed as an Arduino based system that instantly records the variables such as temperature, humidity, air quality to the server using Wi-Fi connection and instantly providing the monitoring ability for clinicians and nurses. Accelerometer is used to control the baby's awake and asleep status, and patientbased safe identification and assessments are made using RFID. As a result, a system has been designed to integrate all the classical incubators and ensure that a large number of incubators can be monitored from a single center.

Using Push Notification in Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring Systems

This paper discusses mobile notifications in the context of health monitoring system that measure and store vital signs of the patient that are included in this program. The values measured are temperature and cardiac rhythm. This has two Android application, one is used by the patient to monitor his vital signs and the other is used by the physician to be able to see and receive push notifications of each individual patient. The sensors are connected to a Raspberry Pi and these devices send information to the Android smartphone via Bluetooth. The physician can monitor patient data in real time. All the information that is gathered by the smartphone from the sensors are sent to the cloud, can project a history and can detect some anomalies, for example, if the cardiac pulse is not within the limits of an accepted interval.