PTCBM370 Wearable Devices Syllabus:
PTCBM370 Wearable Devices Syllabus – Anna University Part time Regulation 2023
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
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 for 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
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
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
Introduction to smart textile- Passive smart textile, active smart textile. Fabrication TechniquesConductive Fibres, Treated Conductive Fibres, Conductive Fabrics, Conductive Inks.Case study- smart fabric for monitoring biological parameters – ECG, respiration.
UNIT V APPLICATIONS OF WEARABLE SYSTEMS
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.