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Advanced Wearable Sensors for Telehealth Monitoring: Movement Tracking and Analysis

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 1048

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Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, 34320 Istanbul, Turkey
Interests: wearable technology; biosignal processing; physical therapy and rehabilitation

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Department of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK
Interests: physical activity measurement; wearable technology; gait and posture; virtual reality enviornment

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The integration of wearable sensors into telehealth platforms is transforming how clinicians monitor and assess human movement remotely. This approach increases accessibility for patients in remote or underserved areas and helps reduce the burden on busy hospitals. This Special Issue invites high-quality contributions on innovative sensor technologies, signal processing methods, and artificial intelligence (AI) applications that support telehealth monitoring.

We welcome studies exploring sensor fusion, edge computing, the Internet of Things (IoT) in gait and balance assessment, instrumentation of score-based clinical tests, and machine learning or deep learning approaches for prediction and classification in free living. Papers may cover novel algorithms, system development, validation studies, or case studies demonstrating the feasibility and impact of wearable telehealth solutions. We also encourage work evaluating these technologies in real-world settings to present their potential to enable personalised care and continuous monitoring outside traditional clinical environments.  

Dr. Yunus Celik
Dr. Gill Barry
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • wearable sensors
  • telehealth monitoring
  • movement analysis
  • balance analysis
  • turning analysis
  • sleep assessment
  • sensor fusion
  • artificial intelligence
  • edge computing
  • IoT

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Robust 3D Skeletal Joint Fall Detection in Occluded and Rotated Views Using Data Augmentation and Inference–Time Aggregation
by Maryem Zobi, Lorenzo Bolzani, Youness Tabii and Rachid Oulad Haj Thami
Sensors 2025, 25(21), 6783; https://doi.org/10.3390/s25216783 - 6 Nov 2025
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Abstract
Fall detection systems are a critical application of human pose estimation, frequently struggle with achieving real-world robustness due to their reliance on domain-specific datasets and a limited capacity for generalization to novel conditions. Models trained on controlled, canonical camera views often fail when [...] Read more.
Fall detection systems are a critical application of human pose estimation, frequently struggle with achieving real-world robustness due to their reliance on domain-specific datasets and a limited capacity for generalization to novel conditions. Models trained on controlled, canonical camera views often fail when subjects are viewed from new perspectives or are partially occluded, resulting in missed detections or false positives. This study tackles these limitations by proposing the Viewpoint Invariant Robust Aggregation Graph Convolutional Network (VIRA-GCN), an adaptation of the Richly Activated GCN for fall detection. The VIRA-GCN introduces a novel dual-strategy solution: a synthetic viewpoint generation process to augment training data and an efficient inference-time aggregation method to form consensus-based predictions. We demonstrate that augmenting the Le2i dataset with simulated rotations and occlusions allows a standard pose estimation model to achieve a significant increase in its fall detection capabilities. The VIRA-GCN achieved 99.81% accuracy on the Le2i dataset, confirming its enhanced robustness. Furthermore, the model is suitable for low-resource deployment, utilizing only 4.06 M parameters and achieving a real-time inference latency of 7.50 ms. This work presents a practical and efficient solution for developing a single-camera fall detection system robust to viewpoint variations, and introduces a reusable mapping function to convert Kinect data to the MMPose format, ensuring consistent comparison with state-of-the-art models. Full article
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