Kinetic-Powered Health Wearables: Challenges and Opportunities
Abstract
On-body health monitoring involves continuous sensing and wireless data transmissions, which severely impacts the battery life of wearable devices. However, rapid advances in kinetic energy harvesting (KEH) soon might obviate the need for battery recharging or replacement by harnessing human motion energy. The authors discuss the challenges and opportunities of KEH technology to help realize the ultimate vision of fully autonomous IoT-based healthcare.
Recommended Citation
M. Hassan et al., "Kinetic-Powered Health Wearables: Challenges and Opportunities," Computer, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 64 - 74, IEEE Computer Society, Sep 2018.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2018.3620960
Department(s)
Computer Science
Research Center/Lab(s)
Intelligent Systems Center
Second Research Center/Lab
Center for High Performance Computing Research
Keywords and Phrases
Energy harvesting; Health; Health care; Internet of things; Kinetic energy; Kinetics; Secondary batteries; Battery recharging; Continuous sensing; Health monitoring; Piezoelectric energy harvesters; Sensing; Wearable devices; Wearables; Wireless data transmission; Wearable technology; Healthcare; IoT; KEH; Kinetic energy harvesting; PEH
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
0018-9162
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2018 IEEE Computer Society, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Sep 2018
