Communications for Wearable Devices

TL;DR

This paper reviews wireless communication methods for wearable devices, discusses an accelerometer-based control algorithm, and highlights challenges in deploying wearable tech for body area networks and biometric verification.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of wearable communication deployments and introduces an accelerometer-based control algorithm for wearable devices.

Findings

Accelerometer data can be used for control and communication signals.

Wireless communication in wearables faces deployment challenges.

Discussion of biometric verification in wearable networks.

Abstract

Wearable devices are transforming computing and the human-computer interaction and they are a primary means for motion recognition of reflexive systems. We review basic wearable deployments and their open wireless communications. An algorithm that uses accelerometer data to provide a control and communication signal is described. Challenges in the further deployment of wearable device in the field of body area network and biometric verification are discussed.