Smart Wearable Sensors and Systems for Healthcare Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

The last decade has witnessed the research and development of smart wearable sensors and systems for health monitoring. Micro and nanotechnologies have allowed miniaturization of sensors, and smart fabrics made possible the installation of sensing devices and systems with minimal intrusion for continuous monitoring of peoples’ health, activity, mobility, and mental status, both indoors and outdoors. Smart wearable solutions for healthcare monitoring include not only hardware (sensors, actuators, multimedia devices, etc.) but also applications for data acquisition, processing, transmission and presentation and applications for real-time decision support, for disease prevention, symptom detection, and diagnosis.

The Special Issue will cover advances in smart wearable sensing technologies and systems with application in health monitoring. Contributions that address but are not restricted to the following topics are welcome:

• Body sensor network wearables;
• Electrical stimulation wearables;
• Smart implantable devices;
• IoT wearable devices;
• Medicine skin patches;
• Smart wearable devices in cardiovascular care;
• Personal area network wearables;
• Smart wearable technologies for physical rehabilitation;
• Electronic textiles and wearable technologies;
• Wearable flexible sensors;
• Socio-economic and wearables;
• Telemedicine and wearables;
• User acceptance of wearable health monitoring devices;
• Needs and barriers of smart wearables adoption.

Prof. Dr. Pedro Silva Girão
Dr. Octavian Postolache
Guest Editors

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