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  • Open Access
5 Citations
11,369 Views
47 Pages

29 August 2025

Wearable computing is evolving from a passive data collection paradigm into an active, precision-guided health orchestration system. This survey synthesizes developments across sensing modalities, wireless protocols, computational frameworks, and AI-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,402 Views
21 Pages

HeSARIC: A Heterogeneous Cyber–Physical Robotic Swarm Framework for Structural Health Monitoring with Augmented Reality Representation

  • Alireza Fath,
  • Christoph Sauter,
  • Yi Liu,
  • Brandon Gamble,
  • Dylan Burns,
  • Evan Trombley,
  • Sai Krishna Reddy Sathi,
  • Tian Xia and
  • Dryver Huston

13 April 2025

This study proposes a cyber–physical framework for the integration of a heterogeneous swarm of robots, sensors, microrobots, and AR for structural health monitoring and confined space inspection based on the application’s unique challenge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
4,537 Views
18 Pages

16 July 2019

With the help of community participants, smartphones can become useful wireless sensor network (WSN) components, form a self-governing structural health monitoring (SHM) system, and merge structural mechanics with participatory sensing and server com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,506 Views
16 Pages

This paper summarizes the lessons learned after several decades of exploring and applying Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) in operating bridge structures. The challenges in real-time imaging and processing of large amounts of sensor data at various...

  • Review
  • Open Access
188 Views
22 Pages

Bridge health monitoring is crucial for ensuring the safety and durability of infrastructure. In traditional methods, physics-based models have high interpretability but are difficult to handle complex nonlinear problems, while purely data-driven mac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
291 Views
20 Pages

1 January 2026

Bond wire degradation represents the predominant failure mechanism in IGBT modules, accounting for approximately 70% of power converter failures and posing significant reliability challenges in modern power electronic systems. Existing monitoring tec...

  • Review
  • Open Access
124 Citations
14,935 Views
28 Pages

Sensors and Systems for Physical Rehabilitation and Health Monitoring—A Review

  • Lucas Medeiros Souza do Nascimento,
  • Lucas Vacilotto Bonfati,
  • Melissa La Banca Freitas,
  • José Jair Alves Mendes Junior,
  • Hugo Valadares Siqueira and
  • Sergio Luiz Stevan

22 July 2020

The use of wearable equipment and sensing devices to monitor physical activities, whether for well-being, sports monitoring, or medical rehabilitation, has expanded rapidly due to the evolution of sensing techniques, cheaper integrated circuits, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,587 Views
17 Pages

A Framework for Maternal Physical Activities and Health Monitoring Using Wearable Sensors

  • Farman Ullah,
  • Asif Iqbal,
  • Sumbul Iqbal,
  • Daehan Kwak,
  • Hafeez Anwar,
  • Ajmal Khan,
  • Rehmat Ullah,
  • Huma Siddique and
  • Kyung-Sup Kwak

21 July 2021

We propose a physical activity recognition and monitoring framework based on wearable sensors during maternity. A physical activity can either create or prevent health issues during a given stage of pregnancy depending on its intensity. Thus, it beco...

  • Review
  • Open Access
267 Citations
53,800 Views
36 Pages

The Emergence of AI-Based Wearable Sensors for Digital Health Technology: A Review

  • Shaghayegh Shajari,
  • Kirankumar Kuruvinashetti,
  • Amin Komeili and
  • Uttandaraman Sundararaj

29 November 2023

Disease diagnosis and monitoring using conventional healthcare services is typically expensive and has limited accuracy. Wearable health technology based on flexible electronics has gained tremendous attention in recent years for monitoring patient h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,632 Views
16 Pages

A Novel Monitoring System (AUT FIT) for Anthropometrics and Physical Fitness in Primary School Children in Austria: A Cross-Sectional Pilot Study

  • Gerald Jarnig,
  • Johannes Jaunig,
  • Reinhold Kerbl,
  • Rodrigo Antunes Lima and
  • Mireille N. M. van Poppel

24 December 2021

Monitoring of anthropometric and physical fitness parameters in primary school children is important for the prevention of future health problems. Many of the existing test batteries that are useful for monitoring require expensive test materials, sp...

  • Review
  • Open Access
62 Citations
10,598 Views
28 Pages

Low-Cost Technologies Used in Corrosion Monitoring

  • Mahyad Komary,
  • Seyedmilad Komarizadehasl,
  • Nikola Tošić,
  • I. Segura,
  • Jose Antonio Lozano-Galant and
  • Jose Turmo

23 January 2023

Globally, corrosion is the costliest cause of the deterioration of metallic and concrete structures, leading to significant financial losses and unexpected loss of life. Therefore, corrosion monitoring is vital to the assessment of structures’...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
16,694 Views
14 Pages

14 May 2015

Cyber physical systems (CPS) in a manufacturing and automation context can be referred to different manufacturing process, including design, simulation, control, and verification. However, for data analytics, the concept of CPS is relatively new, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,979 Views
20 Pages

The marine engine is a complex-structured multidisciplinary system that operates in a harsh environment involving high temperatures and pressures and gas/fluid/solid interactions. Many malfunctions and faults can occur to the marine engine and effici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,300 Views
12 Pages

23 November 2024

Background: Individuals with diabetes face a higher risk of mobility disabilities, frailty, and sarcopenia (physical health agility). Studies have shown an association between HbA1C levels and physical health agility status. There is less information...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,255 Views
11 Pages

Physical Activity Promotion Tools in the Portuguese Primary Health Care: An Implementation Research

  • Romeu Mendes,
  • Marlene Nunes Silva,
  • Catarina Santos Silva,
  • Adilson Marques,
  • Cristina Godinho,
  • Rita Tomás,
  • Marcos Agostinho,
  • Sara Madeira,
  • Alexandre Rebelo-Marques and
  • Diogo Cruz
  • + 2 authors

Background: This paper aims to discuss how physical activity (PA) brief assessment, brief counseling, and self-monitoring tools were designed and implemented in the Portuguese National Health Service (NHS), and to report on their current use by healt...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,181 Views
19 Pages

Smart Electrically Assisted Bicycles as Health Monitoring Systems: A Review

  • Eli Gabriel Avina-Bravo,
  • Johan Cassirame,
  • Christophe Escriba,
  • Pascal Acco,
  • Jean-Yves Fourniols and
  • Georges Soto-Romero

8 January 2022

This paper aims to provide a review of the electrically assisted bicycles (also known as e-bikes) used for recovery of the rider’s physical and physiological information, monitoring of their health state, and adjusting the “medical”...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,397 Views
16 Pages

A Comparison of Deep Learning Algorithms for Anomaly Detection in Discrete Mechanical Systems

  • Francesco Morgan Bono,
  • Luca Radicioni,
  • Simone Cinquemani and
  • Gianluca Bombaci

5 May 2023

The application of intelligent systems for structural health monitoring is investigated. A change in the nominal configuration can be related to a structural defect that has to be monitored before it reaches a critical condition. Evidently, the abili...

  • Review
  • Open Access
85 Citations
15,645 Views
40 Pages

24 October 2022

This review identifies current machine-learning algorithms implemented in building structural health monitoring systems and their success in determining the level of damage in a hierarchical classification. The integration of physical models, feature...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,224 Views
20 Pages

Background: The study was focused on identifying the relationship between the incidence of exercise dependence attitudes, the level of body perception, and preferences for use of fitness technology monitoring. Methods: We investigated 241 students fr...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
70 Citations
22,011 Views
10 Pages

5 March 2022

Introduction: Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems were primarily developed for patients with diabetes mellitus. However, these systems are increasingly being used by individuals who do not have diabetes mellitus. This mini review describes po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,972 Views
15 Pages

Validity of a Novel Research-Grade Physical Activity and Sleep Monitor for Continuous Remote Patient Monitoring

  • Bríd McDevitt,
  • Lisa Moore,
  • Nishat Akhtar,
  • James Connolly,
  • Rónán Doherty and
  • William Scott

13 March 2021

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Remote Patient Monitoring technologies are highly important for clinicians and researchers. These connected-health technologies enable monitoring of patients and facilitate remote clinical trial research while r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,541 Views
14 Pages

30 March 2022

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the general term used to describe respiratory diseases such as chronic bronchitis or emphysema of the lungs. COPD is known to cause the onset of frailty due to limitations of physical activity (PA) in d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,421 Views
19 Pages

Graph Layer Security: Encrypting Information via Common Networked Physics

  • Zhuangkun Wei,
  • Liang Wang,
  • Schyler Chengyao Sun,
  • Bin Li and
  • Weisi Guo

23 May 2022

The proliferation of low-cost Internet of Things (IoT) devices has led to a race between wireless security and channel attacks. Traditional cryptography requires high computational power and is not suitable for low-power IoT scenarios. Whilst recentl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
14,606 Views
12 Pages

Intermittent monitoring of health risk behaviours at the population level is important for the planning and evaluation of national health promotion intervention programmes. The study aimed to provide trend estimates on the prevalence of various healt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,935 Views
13 Pages

Failure of Digital Device Performance in Monitoring Physical Exercise in a Pilot Study in Sedentary Persons with HIV

  • Matteo Bonato,
  • Federica Marmondi,
  • Filippo Turrini,
  • Andrea Albergoni,
  • Maddalena Pennacchi,
  • Camilla Cerizza,
  • Maria Francesca Piacentini,
  • Antonella Castagna,
  • Laura Galli and
  • Paola Cinque
  • + 1 author

28 November 2023

Digital devices have gained popularity in the last 10 years as a tool for exercise prescription, the monitoring of daily physical activity, and nutrition for the management of a health-related parameter. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
656 Views
32 Pages

23 November 2025

This study introduces a physics-guided self-supervised framework for few-shot ultrasonic defect detection in concrete structures, addressing the dual challenges of scarce labels and domain variability in structural health monitoring (SHM). Our method...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,654 Views
35 Pages

Advancements in Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Laminated Composites: A Comprehensive Review

  • Salman Khalid,
  • Muhammad Haris Yazdani,
  • Muhammad Muzammil Azad,
  • Muhammad Umar Elahi,
  • Izaz Raouf and
  • Heung Soo Kim

25 December 2024

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) integrate physics principles with machine learning, offering innovative solutions for complex modeling challenges. Laminated composites, characterized by their anisotropic behavior, multi-layered structures, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,230 Views
19 Pages

Physical activity has been shown to improve the health and well-being of students, athletes and the general population, especially when it is properly monitored and responses are evaluated. However, data are mostly gathered without considering a valu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,790 Views
16 Pages

Analysis of Older Adults in Spanish Care Facilities, Risk of Falling and Daily Activity Using Xiaomi Mi Band 2

  • María del Carmen Miranda-Duro,
  • Laura Nieto-Riveiro,
  • Patricia Concheiro-Moscoso,
  • Betania Groba,
  • Thais Pousada,
  • Nereida Canosa and
  • Javier Pereira

11 May 2021

Background: Presently the use of technological devices such as wearable devices has emerged. Physical activity monitoring with wearable sensors is an easy and non-intrusive approach to encourage preventive care for older adults. It may be useful to f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
10,316 Views
26 Pages

LoRaWAN Battery-Free Wireless Sensors Network Designed for Structural Health Monitoring in the Construction Domain

  • Gaël Loubet,
  • Alexandru Takacs,
  • Ethan Gardner,
  • Andrea De Luca,
  • Florin Udrea and
  • Daniela Dragomirescu

28 March 2019

This paper addresses the practical implementation of a wireless sensors network designed to actualize cyber-physical systems that are dedicated to structural health monitoring applications in the construction domain. This network consists of a mesh g...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,791 Views
20 Pages

13 August 2023

With the popularization of intelligent sensing and the improvement of modern medical technology, intelligent medical sensing technology has emerged as the times require. This technology combines basic disciplines such as physics, mathematics, and mat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,546 Views
23 Pages

12 May 2022

As a structural health monitoring (SHM) system can hardly measure all the needed responses, estimating the target response from the measured responses has become an important task. Deep neural networks (NNs) have a strong nonlinear mapping ability, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,982 Views
18 Pages

7 February 2023

With the increase in low-power wireless communication solutions, the deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks is becoming usual, especially to implement Cyber-Physical Systems. These latter can be used for Structural Health Monitoring applications in c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,633 Views
20 Pages

22 September 2022

Concrete exhibits time-dependent long-term behavior driven by creep and shrinkage. These rheological effects are difficult to predict due to their stochastic nature and dependence on loading history. Existing empirical models used to predict rheologi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,209 Views
23 Pages

29 December 2022

In civil, mechanical, and aerospace structures, full-field measurement has become necessary to estimate the precise location of precise damage and controlling purposes. Conventional full-field sensing requires dense installation of contact-based sens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
9,694 Views
19 Pages

Smartphone App with an Accelerometer Enhances Patients’ Physical Activity Following Elective Orthopedic Surgery: A Pilot Study

  • Hanneke C. van Dijk-Huisman,
  • Anouk T.R. Weemaes,
  • Tim A.E.J. Boymans,
  • Antoine F. Lenssen and
  • Rob A. de Bie

2 August 2020

Low physical activity (PA) levels are common in hospitalized patients. Digital health tools could be valuable in preventing the negative effects of inactivity. We therefore developed Hospital Fit; which is a smartphone application with an acceleromet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
110 Citations
9,420 Views
16 Pages

Secure Smart Wearable Computing through Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems for Health Monitoring

  • Lakshmana Kumar Ramasamy,
  • Firoz Khan,
  • Mohammad Shah,
  • Balusupati Veera Venkata Siva Prasad,
  • Celestine Iwendi and
  • Cresantus Biamba

29 January 2022

The functionality of the Internet is continually changing from the Internet of Computers (IoC) to the “Internet of Things (IoT)”. Most connected systems, called Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), are formed from the integration of numerous fea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,724 Views
18 Pages

2 February 2024

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis can be influenced by pain, medication adherence, and physical activity. A new digital health intervention, InteractiveClinics, aims to monitor these modifiable risk factors. Twelve children, aged 10 to 18 years, received...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
53 Citations
9,464 Views
21 Pages

9 March 2020

The use of wearable body sensors for health monitoring is a quickly growing field with the potential of offering a reliable means for clinical and remote health management. This includes both real-time monitoring and health trend monitoring with the...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,759 Views
9 Pages

School-Based Exercise Programs for Promoting Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Overweight and Obese Children Aged 6 to 10

  • Stefan Mijalković,
  • Dušan Stanković,
  • Mario Tomljanović,
  • Maja Batez,
  • Maki Grle,
  • Ivana Grle,
  • Ivan Brkljačić,
  • Josip Jularić,
  • Goran Sporiš and
  • Suzana Žilič Fišer

30 August 2022

The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review of the school-based exercise programs for promoting cardiorespiratory fitness in overweight and obese children aged 6 to 10. Electronic databases (Web of Science and PubMed) were used as search...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,234 Views
13 Pages

“Can Do” vs. “Do Do” in Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Sensor-Derived Physical Activity Patterns

  • Michael Adams,
  • Lara Carrascosa,
  • Carl-Philipp Jansen,
  • Yvonne Ritter and
  • Michael Schwenk

7 February 2023

(1) Background: Identifying groups with a misaligned physical capacity (PC) and physical activity (PA) is potentially relevant for health promotion. Although an important health determinant, deeper knowledge of underlying walking behavior patterns in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
6,926 Views
12 Pages

5 August 2021

Remote monitoring of physical frailty is important to personalize care for slowing down the frailty process and/or for the healthy recovery of older adults following acute or chronic stressors. Taking the Fried frailty criteria as a reference to dete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,180 Views
12 Pages

Compensation for Adolescents’ School Mental Load by Physical Activity on Weekend Days

  • Michal Kudláček,
  • Karel Frömel,
  • Lukáš Jakubec and
  • Dorota Groffik

Introduction and objective: Increasing mental load and inadequate stress management significantly affect the efficiency, success and safety of the educational/working process in adolescents. The objective of this study is to determine the extent that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,418 Views
12 Pages

Muscle Engagement Monitoring Using Self-Adhesive Elastic Nanocomposite Fabrics

  • Yun-An Lin,
  • Yash Mhaskar,
  • Amy Silder,
  • Pinata H. Sessoms,
  • John J. Fraser and
  • Kenneth J. Loh

7 September 2022

Insight into, and measurements of, muscle contraction during movement may help improve the assessment of muscle function, quantification of athletic performance, and understanding of muscle behavior, prior to and during rehabilitation following neuro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
16,366 Views
18 Pages

Are Activity Wrist-Worn Devices Accurate for Determining Heart Rate during Intense Exercise?

  • Pilar Martín-Escudero,
  • Ana María Cabanas,
  • María Luisa Dotor-Castilla,
  • Mercedes Galindo-Canales,
  • Francisco Miguel-Tobal,
  • Cristina Fernández-Pérez,
  • Manuel Fuentes-Ferrer and
  • Romano Giannetti

The market for wrist-worn devices is growing at previously unheard-of speeds. A consequence of their fast commercialization is a lack of adequate studies testing their accuracy on varied populations and pursuits. To provide an understanding of wearab...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,411 Views
17 Pages

Anthropo-Mechanical Cradles: A Multidisciplinary Review

  • Maciej Sydor,
  • Jessica Pop,
  • Anna Jasińska and
  • Marek Zabłocki

Domestic cradles are beds that are movable but non-mobile for babies up to five months of age. The “anthropo-mechanical” cradle simulates the physiological movement of the human body. The article reviews scientific literature discussing t...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
67 Citations
12,582 Views
21 Pages

Wearable Sensors and Artificial Intelligence for Physical Ergonomics: A Systematic Review of Literature

  • Leandro Donisi,
  • Giuseppe Cesarelli,
  • Noemi Pisani,
  • Alfonso Maria Ponsiglione,
  • Carlo Ricciardi and
  • Edda Capodaglio

5 December 2022

Physical ergonomics has established itself as a valid strategy for monitoring potential disorders related, for example, to working activities. Recently, in the field of physical ergonomics, several studies have also shown potential for improvement in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,645 Views
18 Pages

The Effect of a Smartphone App with an Accelerometer on the Physical Activity Behavior of Hospitalized Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

  • Hanneke C. van Dijk-Huisman,
  • Rachel Senden,
  • Maud H. H. Smeets,
  • Rik G. J. Marcellis,
  • Fabienne J. H. Magdelijns and
  • Antoine F. Lenssen

25 October 2023

Inactive behavior is common in hospitalized patients. This study investigated the effectiveness of using a smartphone app with an accelerometer (Hospital Fit) in addition to usual care physiotherapy on increasing patients’ physical activity (PA...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,148 Views
13 Pages

Identification of Pain through Actigraphy-Recorded Patient Movement: A Comprehensive Review

  • Ricardo A. Torres-Guzman,
  • Olivia A. Ho,
  • Sahar Borna,
  • Cesar A. Gomez-Cabello,
  • Syed Ali Haider and
  • Antonio Jorge Forte

Chronic pain affects over 50 million people in the United States, particularly older adults, making effective assessment and treatment essential in primary care. Actigraphy, which monitors and records limb movement to estimate wakefulness and sleep,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,171 Views
14 Pages

Effectiveness of Hospital Fit on Physical Activity in Hospitalized Patients: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster-Randomized Trial and Process Evaluation

  • Hanneke C. van Dijk-Huisman,
  • Niek Koenders,
  • Rik G. J. Marcellis,
  • Indy G. M. Smits,
  • Thomas J. Hoogeboom and
  • Ton A. F. Lenssen

12 September 2024

This study investigates the effectiveness of using Hospital Fit as part of usual care physiotherapy on the physical activity (PA) behavior of hospitalized patients compared to patients who received physiotherapy before implementation of Hospital Fit....

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