A review on telemedicine-based WBAN framework for patient monitoring.

OBJECTIVE In this article, we describe the important aspects like major characteristics, research issues, and challenges with body area sensor networks in telemedicine systems for patient monitoring in different scenarios. Present and emerging developments in communications integrated with the developments in microelectronics and embedded system technologies will have a dramatic impact on future patient monitoring and health information delivery systems. The important challenges are bandwidth limitations, power consumption, and skin or tissue protection. MATERIALS AND METHODS This article presents a detailed survey on wireless body area networks (WBANs). RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS We have designed the framework for integrating body area networks on telemedicine systems. Recent trends, overall WBAN-telemedicine framework, and future research scope have also been addressed in this article.

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