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Cooperating Objects in Healthcare Applications

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Wireless sensor/actuators networks (WSN) have emerged in the recent years as one of the enabling technologies for healthcare applications [1–3] both as body sensor networks (BSNs) and as environmental assistant networks.

Contributors of this chapter include: Davide Brunelli, Elisabetta Farella, Giancarlo Fortino, Roberta Giannantonio, and Raffaele Gravina.

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    Stamatis Karnouskos

  2. Netzworked Embedded Systems Group, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

    Pedro José Marrón

  3. University of Calabria, Calabria, Italy

    Giancarlo Fortino

  4. Dipartimento di Elettronica ed Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Luca Mottola

  5. University of Seville, Seville, Spain

    José Ramiro Martínez-de Dios

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Karnouskos, S., Marrón, P.J., Fortino, G., Mottola, L., Martínez-de Dios, J.R. (2014). Cooperating Objects in Healthcare Applications. In: Applications and Markets for Cooperating Objects. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45401-1_4

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