Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) and sensor technologies are rapidly transforming healthcare and personal monitoring by integrating advanced sensing devices with unobtrusive communication systems.

Engineers have taken their transient pacemaker and integrated it into a coordinated network of four soft, flexible, wireless wearable sensors and control units placed on different anatomically ...

GE is developing wireless medical monitoring systems that could replace the traditional tangle of bedside cables used to capture a patient's vital signs. Elizabeth Armstrong Moore Elizabeth Armstrong ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The military has for decades used sonar for underwater communication. Now, researchers at the University at Buffalo are developing a miniaturized version of the same technology to be ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Vulnerable groups in society, such as the disabled, elderly, and infants, often require special care and are at risk of severe illness or even death. For example, each year around ...

The budding field of Body Area Networks gives new meaning to the term "personal" in PCs. In a nutshell, the technology leverages wireless communications protocols that allow for low-powered sensors to ...

This module is a sensor package for monitoring the electrical activity of the heart. It is the product of an effort to create a Wireless Body Sensor Network node that is dependable while consuming ...

The Internet of Things revolution is upon us, and by the year 2020, there will be over 30 billion connected things in the world. With the world’s population increasing and resources becoming more ...

Last summer, Northwestern University researchers introduced the first-ever transient pacemaker — a fully implantable, wireless device that harmlessly dissolves in the body after it’s no longer needed.