Body posture/activity detection: Path loss characterization for 2.4GHz on-body wireless sensors

On-body wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are gaining an increasing interest in medical, military as well as entertainment applications. Wireless transceiver modules placed on the body and combined with actuators/sensors can communicate between them and with any other node located in the surrounding environment, without any human body movement constraint with respect to wired connections.

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