Wearable Sensors and IoT-Oriented Systems for Life Quality Improvement

Dear Colleagues,

Advances in digital technologies are allowing people and things to constantly stay connected and synchronized with the Internet, introducing us to a world always connected and full of possibilities, thanks to the detection, processing, and sharing of the data collected by the devices. Particularly, the availability of microcontroller-based data-processing electronic boards, smart sensors, and wireless communication modules, all featured by ultra-low power consumption and high performances, offers new application solutions in the wearable devices field, which enable real-time and punctual monitoring of user's biophysical parameters. In this context, the IoMT (Internet of medical things) and IoHT (Internet of healthcare things) paradigms, in the near future, will represent the evolution of healthcare, by equipping the patient with smart devices, with little or no invasiveness, in order to constantly monitor their health conditions. These devices open new possibilities for PoC (point of care) monitoring systems, which involve considerable hardware and software potential, through multi-platform applications, distributed high-speed network connectivity, and the use of big data. In fact, a suitable hardware and software architecture will be needed to store and elaborate the data gathered by the different wearable devices in order to make them available to medical staff, for providing feedback to the patient, or alerting the rescue teams in case of sickness or dangerous situations for workers.

Summing up, this Special Issue “Wearable Sensors and IoT-Oriented Systems for Life Quality Improvement” brings together innovative developments and synergies related, but not limited, to following topics:

• Wearable devices for health monitoring;
• Data processing of wearable sensor systems;
• Flexible electronic wearable devices;
• Predictive algorithms for body movements;
• Monitoring of elderly and disabled people;
• PoC (point of care) sensing devices and the integration of medical platform;
• Body sensors networks;
• Sensors for fitness and wellbeing;
• Non-conventional patient monitoring;
• Wearable devices for environmental monitoring;
• Accident preventing system in the workplace;
• Design and testing of IoMT solutions ;
• Design and testing of IoHT solutions;
• IoT solutions for remote control of workers in hostile environments.

Prof. Dr. Paolo Visconti
Guest Editor

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