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Wireless sensor networks for healthcare: A survey

Hande Alemdar, +1 more
- 01 Oct 2010 - 
- Vol. 54, Iss: 15, pp 2688-2710
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This paper provides several state of the art examples together with the design considerations like unobtrusiveness, scalability, energy efficiency, security and also provides a comprehensive analysis of the benefits and challenges of these systems.
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This article is published in Computer Networks.The article was published on 2010-10-01. It has received 1331 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Wireless sensor network & Wireless network.

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Internet of Things (IoT): A vision, architectural elements, and future directions

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a cloud centric vision for worldwide implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) and present a Cloud implementation using Aneka, which is based on interaction of private and public Clouds, and conclude their IoT vision by expanding on the need for convergence of WSN, the Internet and distributed computing directed at technological research community.
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Internet of Things in Industries: A Survey

TL;DR: This review paper summarizes the current state-of-the-art IoT in industries systematically and identifies research trends and challenges.
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The Internet of Things for Health Care: A Comprehensive Survey

TL;DR: An intelligent collaborative security model to minimize security risk is proposed; how different innovations such as big data, ambient intelligence, and wearables can be leveraged in a health care context is discussed; and various IoT and eHealth policies and regulations are addressed to determine how they can facilitate economies and societies in terms of sustainable development.
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Sensor-Based Activity Recognition

TL;DR: A comprehensive survey to examine the development and current status of various aspects of sensor-based activity recognition, making a primary distinction in this paper between data-driven and knowledge-driven approaches.
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Wireless sensor networks: a survey on recent developments and potential synergies

TL;DR: This survey gives an overview of wireless sensor networks and their application domains including the challenges that should be addressed in order to push the technology further and identifies several open research issues that need to be investigated in future.
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Towards a Better Understanding of Context and Context-Awareness

TL;DR: Some of the research challenges in understanding context and in developing context-aware applications are discussed, which are increasingly important in the fields of handheld and ubiquitous computing, where the user?s context is changing rapidly.
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MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks: a survey

TL;DR: The sensor network properties that are crucial for the design of MAC layer protocols are outlined and several MAC protocols proposed for sensor networks are described, emphasizing their strengths and weaknesses.
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A review of smart homes-Present state and future challenges

TL;DR: This article presents an international selection of leading smart home projects, as well as the associated technologies of wearable/implantable monitoring systems and assistive robotics, often designed as components of the larger smart home environment.
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Review: Ambient intelligence: Technologies, applications, and opportunities

TL;DR: This paper provides a survey of the technologies that comprise ambient intelligence and of the applications that are dramatically affected by it and specifically focuses on the research that makes AmI technologies ''intelligent''.
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