Continuous advances in wearables, sensors and smart Wireless Body Area Network technologies have precipitated the development of new applications for on-, in- and body-to-body wearable communications for healthcare and sport monitoring. Progress in this cross-disciplinary field is further influenced by developments in radio communication, protocols, synchronization aspects, energy harvesting and storage solutions, and efficient processing techniques for smart antennas.

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Scenarios and applications for wearable technologies and WBSNs with energy harvesting
• Chapter 3: A reliable wearable system for BAN applications with a high number of sensors and high data rate
• Chapter 4: Implementation study of wearable sensors for human activity recognition systems
• Chapter 5: Electromagnetic characterisation of textile materials for the design of wearable antennas and systems
• Chapter 6: Human-movement identification using the radio signal strength in WBAN
• Chapter 7: Cognitive radio and RF energy harvesting for medical WBANS
• Chapter 8: Two innovative energy efficient IEEE 802.15.4 MAC sub-layer protocols with packet concatenation: employing RTS/CTS and multichannel scheduled channel polling
• Chapter 9: A precise low power and hardware-efficient time synchronization method for wearable systems
• Chapter 10: Wearable sensor networks for human gait
• Chapter 11: Integration of sensing devices and the cloud for innovative e-Health applications
• Chapter 12: VitalResponder®: wearable wireless platform for vitals and body-area environment monitoring of first response teams
• Chapter 13: Wearable sensors for foetal movement monitoring in low risk pregnancies
• Chapter 14: Radio frequency energy harvesting and storing in supercapacitors for wearable sensors
• Chapter 15: Conclusion