## 2 State of the Art
### Related Work
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\begin{tabular}{l|l|l} \hline Project Name/Funding & LOBIN [2010] (Study case) [44]/Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade \\ \hline Target Application & Non-invasive and pervasive monitoring of patients with cardiac issues in future healthcare \\  & environments. \\ \hline Tracked Parameters & Physiological & ECG, HR, T \\  & Non- Physiological & A, L (indoor) \\ \hline System Architecture & E-textile t-shirts, location devices, a wireless sensor networks and \\  & base stations that forward the data, and a server (see study case section) \\ \hline Communication Technologies & BAN & e-textile \\  & PAN/AN & IEEE 802.15.4 \\ \hline  & WAN/Backhaul & Internet \\ \hline System Highlights & Sending of data either every 260 ms or on-demand, and storage in a server from where data \\  & can be accessed in real-time. Alert generation whenever tracked parameters go out of \\  & customizable range. \\ \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 28: Summary of LOBIN. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{l|l|l} \hline Project Name/Funding & [PERSON] _et al._[2010] [45]/Australian Research Council (ARC) under Discovery Projects Grant \\ \hline Target Application & Monitoring of physiological signals from patients in medical environments. \\ \hline Tracked Parameters & Physiological & BPr, ECG, EEG, EMG, GSR, R,T \\ \cline{2-3}  & Non- Physiological & \\ \hline System Architecture & Sensors, a multi-hop WBAN with a receiving device and a local or remote PC. \\ \hline Communication Technologies & BAN & MICS \\ \hline  & PAN/AN & WMTS \\ \hline  & WAN/Backhaul & Internet \\ \hline System Highlights & Data from sensors is collected, interpreted and stored in the PC for further analysis by health professionals. \\ \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 29: Summary of [PERSON] _et al._ \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{l|l|l} \hline Project Name/Funding & MEDISN [2010] [46]/National Science Foundation and Department of Homeland Security, \\  & USA \\ \hline Target Application & Medical emergency detection in hospital environments or disaster events. \\ \hline Tracked Parameters & Physiological & ECG, HR, SpO2 \\ \hline System Architecture & Non- Physiological & \\ \hline  & RF sensors with built-in display, relay points, a gateway and a remote database. \\ \hline Communication Technologies & BAN & IEEE 802.15.4 \\ \hline  & PAN/AN & IEEE 802.15.4 \\ \hline  & WAN/Backhaul & Internet \\ \hline System Highlights & Periodical data sending through a WSN mesh and data storing in a server. \\ \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 30: Summary of MEDISN. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{l|l|l} \hline Project Name/Funding & [PERSON] _et al._[2011] [47]/Michigan Technological University, Houghton, USA \\ \hline Target Application & ECG monitoring for cardiac arrhythmia classification. \\ \hline Tracked Parameters & Physiological & ECG \\ \cline{2-3}  & Non- Physiological & A \\ \hline System Architecture & Wearable ECG sensor node and mobile phone \\ \hline  & BAN & Bluetooth \\ \hline Communication Technologies & PAN/AN & WiFi \\ \cline{2-3}  & WAN/Backhaul & GPRS \\ \hline System Highlights & Real-time analysis and diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. \\ \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 31: Summary of [PERSON] _et al._ \begin{table}
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\begin{tabular}{l} [PERSON] _et al._ [2011][49]/Imperial College London, UK \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline Target Application & Assessment of patients with back pain. \\ \hline \multirow{2}{*}{Tracked Parameters} & Physiological & \\  & Non- Physiological & M (human back) \\ \hline System Architecture & 3 axis accelerometer, a gyroscope, a magnetometer and a base station connected to a PC. \\ \hline \multirow{3}{*}{Communication Technologies} & BAN & IEEE 802.15.4 \\ \cline{2-3}  & PAN/AN & \\ \cline{2-3}  & WAN/Backhaul & \\ \hline \multirow{3}{*}{System Highlights} & Euler angles are defined to represent the orientation for human back segments. Kinematics analysis is then derived. \\ \hline \end{tabular}
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