[Retracted] Wearable Wireless Body Area Networks for Medical Applications

Table 6

Wearable WBAN applications in health.

Reference	Sensors used	Pathology or type of measurement	Communication method	Sensor reliability	Errors when sending data	Security	Energy saving	Real-time
[34]	Biompedance	Chronic kidney disease	Bluetooth	X
[35]	MEMS inertial sensors [35]	Osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s	Bluetooth	X
[36]	Heart sound sensor	Cardiovascular disease (CD)	Bluetooth 4.0	X
[37]	Flow, accelerometer, microphone, strain, skin impedance, ECG, pulse, VOC, ozone, humidity/temp	Chronic respiratory disease	BLE	X			X
[38]	ECG, accelerometer [38]	CD	NFC	X		X
[39]	ECG signal monitoring	CD	Bluetooth 4.0	X
[40]	Capacitive electromyography (CEMG)	Chronic inflammatory myopathies	Wire	X
[41]	Microsoft Band [41]	Autonomic Dysreflexia (AD)	Bluetooth	X
[42]	Inertials and carbon dioxide concentration detection device	Respiratory disorders	Wire
[43]	Inertials, magnetometer	PD	Bluetooth
[44]	Any ECG sensor	Cardiac care	Bluetooth/wifi/3G	X				X
[45]	Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS)	Cerebral vascular diseases (CVDs)	Bluetooth	X
[46]	ECG	CD	BLE				X
[47]	ECG	Sleep apnea	BLE	X			X
[48]	Light-based sensor	Daily blood pressure measurement	WIFI			X
[49]	Humidity capacitance	Irregular respiratory diseases	Bluetooth	X
[50]	Heart rate, temperature sensor, pressure	Physical parameters	WIFI			X
[51]	Photoplethysmogram (PPG), ECG	Arising heart disease and stroke or any emergency condition	WIFI			X
[52]	ECG, accelerometer; Gyroscope; Magnetometer	Sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS)	Bluetooth low energy (BLE)	X
[53]	Heart rate, temperature, blood pressure	Continuous supervision	Bluetooth	X	X		X
[54]	Pressure system	Chronic venous disorder	Bluetooth	X
[55]	Measurement units	Breathing frequency monitoring	BLE				X
[56]	ECG	Long-term homecare	ZigBee	X			X
[57]	Inertial sensors	Home monitoring of motor fluctuations in PD	BLE	X
[58]	ECG	Telemonitoring and cloud	NRF24L01		X			X
[59]	EMG device	Masticatory muscle activity	BLE	X
[60]	Pulse oximetry	Sleep apnea detection	WIFI/Bluetooth	X			X