Ambient, Wearable Sensor, Gateway Support for Telemonitoring, Telehealth and Telemedicine Systems
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Wearables".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 5435
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advances in science and technology and the resulting improvements in environmental and social conditions have increased life expectancy around the world. The result is rapid population aging, which has major implications for all facets of human life, including on the health and wellbeing of elderly people and their relatives. Most notably, as we age, the incidence and prevalence of chronic diseases increases, straining existing health and care organizations, as more staff and resources are needed to counter the growing numbers of chronic patients. Information technology in the fields of telemonitoring, telehealth, and telemedicine has already proven its potential to reduce the costs of health and care organizations through digitally driven optimization of workflows. However, many of the technologies reaching clinical validation studies rely on a limited level of data collection, often provided by the user manually, or from one or a few sensors only. Combining data from many sensors and gateways, both wearable and ambient, could allow telemonitoring, telehealth, and telemedicine systems to become more reliable, responsive, and user-friendly, as well as allowing us novel insights into the cause and effect of chronic conditions.
This Special Issue invites researchers to submit their work in the field, identifying existing and potentially new avenues for the use and/or development of relevant ambient and wearable sensor and gateway technologies and infrastructures, including work that utilizes several sensors, alone or combined, in a non-invasive way.
Dr. Stefan Wagner
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- telemonitoring
- telehealth
- telemedicine
- wearable
- ambient sensors
- smart sensors
- sensor fusion
- wearable electronic devices
- wireless sensor for wearables
- body area network
- wearable devices and systems
- activity monitoring devices and systems
- wearable imaging
- health data acquisition
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- ambient assisted living
- active and healthy aging
- pervasive computing
- pervasive systems
- clinical validation
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