Recent advances in technology of sensors, wireless communication have enabled the design of compact, ultra-low power, low cost embedded devices which can be interconnected as the key components of Internet of Things (IoT).
IoT is covering an ever-increasing range of applications including automotive, smart buildings and, of particular interest, applications for healthcare.
Wearable healthcare monitoring systems are needed to monitor elderly people or patients’ health status while they are out of the hospital doing their daily activities. Wearable devices are also very popular and useful for sports, fitness and wellness to measure daily activity, sleep patterns, and other parameters related to wellbeing.
Wearable medical devices sense and process the vital signals of the person (e.g. ECG, EEG, EMG) anywhere and anytime for as long as it is needed, and transmit the result/data to the server via SmartPhone or directly via WiFi link.
Since the devices are battery-operated, they need to be ultra-low power. Recent research efforts focus on power reduction of different components including embedded processor, memory, and wireless module by intruding different techniques such as compressing data, approximating the computation, adaptive sampling rate, etc.
In this seminar our main focus is to study different challenges in wearable healthcare monitoring systems at different abstraction layers (system level, architecture level, circuit design level).

Language: englisch.
Application: via registration form.
Preliminary discussion: once registered, the student will be informed by email. Compact course at the end of the semester in Technologiefabrik (Buildg. 07.21, Haid-und-Neu-Str. 7).