Wearable Devices detailed syllabus for Biomedical Engineering (BME) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the BME students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Biomedical Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit BME 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-VI scheme and its subjects refer to BME Professional Elective-VI syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of wearable devices is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION TO WEARABLE SYSTEMS AND SENSORS
Wearable Systems- Introduction, Need for Wearable Systems, Drawbacks of Conventional Systems for Wearable Monitoring, Applications of Wearable Systems, Types of Wearable Systems, Components of wearable Systems. Sensors for wearable systems-Inertia movement sensors, Respiration activity sensor, Inductive plethysmography, Impedance plethysmography, pneumography, Wearable ground reaction force sensor.
Unit II
SIGNAL PROCESSING AND ENERGY HARVESTING FOR WEARABLE DEVICES
Wearability issues -physical shape and placement of sensor, Technical challenges – sensor design, signal acquisition, sampling frequency for reduced energy consumption, Rejection of irrelevant information. Power Requirements- Solar cell, Vibration based, Thermal based, Human body as a heat source for power generation, Hybrid thermoelectric photovoltaic energy harvests, Thermopiles.
Unit III
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Unit IV
SMART TEXTILE
Introduction to smart textile- Passive smart textile, active smart textile. Fabrication Techniques-Conductive Fibres, Treated Conductive Fibres, Conductive Fabrics, Conductive Inks.Case studysmart fabric for monitoring biological parameters – ECG, respiration.
Unit V
APPLICATIONS OF WEARABLE SYSTEMS
Medical Diagnostics, Medical Monitoring-Patients with chronic disease, Hospital patients, Elderly patients, neural recording, Gait analysis, Sports Medicine.
Course Outcomes:
On successful completion of this course, the student will be able to
- Describe the concepts of wearable system.
- Explain the energy harvestings in wearable device.
- Use the concepts of BAN in health care.
- Illustrate the concept of smart textile
- Compare the various wearable devices in healthcare system
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Sandeep K.S, Gupta, Tridib Mukherjee and Krishna Kumar Venkatasubramanian, Body Area Networks Safety, Security, and Sustainability, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Guang-Zhong Yang, Body Sensor Networks, Springer, 2006.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Biomedical Engineering 6th Sem, visit BME 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Biomedical Engineering results, visit Anna University BME all semester results direct link.