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Sensors Network and Wearables for People Activities and Wellbeing Monitoring

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Wearables".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2024 | Viewed by 1217

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Department of Industrial Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche, v. Brecce Bianche 12, 60131 Ancona, Italy
Interests: non-invasive measurement techniques; measurement procedures; measurement uncertainty; active and assisted-living solutions; sensors network; physiological and environmental signals; AI; comfort and wellbeing
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Guest Editor
Department of Industrial Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche, v. Brecce Bianche 12, 60131 Ancona, Italy
Interests: non-invasive measurement techniques; measurement procedures; measurement uncertainty; wearable sensors; physiological signals; comfort and wellbeing
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The development of sensor networks and wearable technologies over the past years has given the possibility of extracting activities and behavioural parameters of people just using low-cost and non-invasive systems. Indeed, the gathered data can be processed with dedicated techniques, often based on artificial intelligence technologies. The monitoring of activities through non-invasive sensor networks and wearable sensors has been demonstrated to be able to depict the user’s well-being, comfort, and global health status in living environments, both indoors and outdoors.

In this Special Issue, we call for papers presenting innovative solutions and signal processing techniques, e.g., artificial intelligence, to measure the wellbeing and activities of people in living environments, both indoor and outdoor, through sensors network and wearable sensors. The papers should properly consider the accuracy in the measurement of such quantities.

Dr. Sara Casaccia
Dr. Gloria Cosoli
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sensor networks
  • wearable sensors
  • well-being
  • health
  • comfort
  • measurements
  • accuracy
  • living environment
  • data processing
  • artificial intelligence

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Agreement between Optoelectronic System and Wearable Sensors for the Evaluation of Gait Spatiotemporal Parameters in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
by Carlo Ricciardi, Noemi Pisani, Leandro Donisi, Filomena Abate, Marianna Amboni, Paolo Barone, Marina Picillo, Mario Cesarelli and Francesco Amato
Sensors 2023, 23(24), 9859; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23249859 - 16 Dec 2023
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The use of wearable sensors for calculating gait parameters has become increasingly popular as an alternative to optoelectronic systems, currently recognized as the gold standard. The objective of the study was to evaluate the agreement between the wearable Opal system and the optoelectronic [...] Read more.
The use of wearable sensors for calculating gait parameters has become increasingly popular as an alternative to optoelectronic systems, currently recognized as the gold standard. The objective of the study was to evaluate the agreement between the wearable Opal system and the optoelectronic BTS SMART DX system for assessing spatiotemporal gait parameters. Fifteen subjects with progressive supranuclear palsy walked at their self-selected speed on a straight path, and six spatiotemporal parameters were compared between the two measurement systems. The agreement was carried out through paired data test, Passing Bablok regression, and Bland-Altman Analysis. The results showed a perfect agreement for speed, a very close agreement for cadence and cycle duration, while, in the other cases, Opal system either under- or over-estimated the measurement of the BTS system. Some suggestions about these misalignments are proposed in the paper, considering that Opal system is widely used in the clinical context. Full article
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