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CBM370 Syllabus

The document discusses a course on wearable devices. It covers topics like hardware requirements, communication and security aspects, and applications in medicine. It outlines 5 units that will be taught: introduction to wearable systems and sensors, signal processing and energy harvesting, wireless health systems, smart textiles, and applications of wearable systems in medical diagnostics and monitoring.

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CBM370 Syllabus

The document discusses a course on wearable devices. It covers topics like hardware requirements, communication and security aspects, and applications in medicine. It outlines 5 units that will be taught: introduction to wearable systems and sensors, signal processing and energy harvesting, wireless health systems, smart textiles, and applications of wearable systems in medical diagnostics and monitoring.

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CBM370 WEARABLE DEVICES LTPC

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OBJECTIVES:
The student should be made to:
 To know the hardware requirement of wearable systems
 To understand the communication and security aspects in the wearable devices
 To know the applications of wearable devices in the field of medicine

UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO WEARABLE SYSTEMS AND SENSORS 9


Wearable Systems- Introduction, Need for Wearable Systems, Drawbacks of Conventional Systems
for Wearable Monitoring, Applications of Wearable Systems, Types of Wearable Systems,
Components of wearable Systems. Sensors or wearable systems-Inertia movement sensors,
Respiration activity sensor, Inductive plethysmography, Impedance plethysmography, pneumography,
Wearable ground reaction force sensor.
UNIT II SIGNAL PROCESSING AND ENERGY HARVESTING FOR WEARABLE
DEVICES 9
Wearability issues -physical shape and placement of sensor, Technical challenges - sensor design,
signal acquisition, sampling frequency for reduced energy consumption, Rejection of irrelevant
information. Power Requirements- Solar cell, Vibration based, Thermal based, Human body as a heat
source for power generation, Hybrid thermoelectric photovoltaic energy harvests, Thermopiles.
UNIT III WIRELESS HEALTH SYSTEMS 9
Need for wireless monitoring, Definition of Body area network, BAN and Healthcare, Technical
Challenges- System security and reliability, BAN Architecture – Introduction, Wireless
communication Techniques.
UNIT IV SMART TEXTILE 9
Introduction to smart textile- Passive smart textile, active smart textile. Fabrication Techniques-
Conductive Fibres, Treated Conductive Fibres, Conductive Fabrics, Conductive Inks. Case studysmart
fabric for monitoring biological parameters - ECG, respiration.
UNIT V APPLICATIONS OF WEARABLE SYSTEMS 9
Medical Diagnostics, Medical Monitoring-Patients with chronic disease, Hospital patients, Elderly
patients, neural recording, Gait analysis, Sports Medicine.
OUTCOMES:
On successful completion of this course, the student will be able to
CO1: Describe the concepts of wearable system.
CO2: Explain the energy harvestings in wearable device.
CO3: Use the concepts of BAN in health care.
CO4: Illustrate the concept of smart textile
CO5: Compare the various wearable devices in healthcare system
TOTAL PERIODS: 45
TEXT BOOKS
1. Annalisa Bonfiglo and Danilo De Rossi, Wearable Monitoring Systems, Springer, 2011
2. Zhang and Yuan-Ting, Wearable Medical Sensors and Systems,Springer, 2013
3. Edward Sazonov and Micheal R Neuman, Wearable Sensors: Fundamentals, Implementation and
Applications, Elsevier, 2014
4. Mehmet R. Yuce and JamilY.Khan, Wireless Body Area Networks Technology, Implementation
applications,Pan Stanford Publishing Pte.Ltd, Singapore, 2012
REFERENCES
1. Sandeep K.S, Gupta, Tridib Mukherjee and Krishna Kumar Venkatasubramanian, Body Area
Networks Safety, Security, and Sustainability, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
2. Guang-Zhong Yang, Body Sensor Networks, Springer, 2006.

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