Smart Wearable Systems for Health Monitoring

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 23; no. 5; p. 2479
• Main Authors: Deng, Zhiyong, Guo, Lihao, Chen, Ximeng, Wu, Weiwei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 23.02.2023; MDPI
• Subjects: advanced materials; Artificial intelligence; Biomarkers; Deformation; Design; Design and construction; Disease; Electrodes; health monitoring; Integrated circuits; Materials selection; Medical diagnosis; Medical equipment; Monitoring systems; Monitoring, Physiologic; Patient monitoring; Photovoltaic cells; Physiological apparatus; Physiology; Polyethylene terephthalate; Polymers; Portability; Radio frequency identification; Review; Skin; smart sensors; Stretchability; Technology application; Telemedicine; Wearable computers; Wearable Electronic Devices; wearable systems; Wearable technology; China; advanced materials; health monitoring; wearable systems; smart sensors
• ISSN: 1424-8220; 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s23052479

Smart wearable systems for health monitoring are highly desired in personal wisdom medicine and telemedicine. These systems make the detecting, monitoring, and recording of biosignals portable, long-term, and comfortable. The development and optimization of wearable health-monitoring systems have focused on advanced materials and system integration, and the number of high-performance wearable systems has been gradually increasing in recent years. However, there are still many challenges in these fields, such as balancing the trade-off between flexibility/stretchability, sensing performance, and the robustness of systems. For this reason, more evolution is required to promote the development of wearable health-monitoring systems. In this regard, this review summarizes some representative achievements and recent progress of wearable systems for health monitoring. Meanwhile, a strategy overview is presented about selecting materials, integrating systems, and monitoring biosignals. The next generation of wearable systems for accurate, portable, continuous, and long-term health monitoring will offer more opportunities for disease diagnosis and treatment.