NARANJO HERNÁNDEZ , David

En este trabajo se ha investigado e implementado una plataforma base que sirve para el desarrollo sistemático y eficiente de sensores biomédicos inteligentes en el ámbito de la e-Salud. La investigación y el desarrollo de la plataforma han sido abordados de forma integral asumiendo las diferentes perspectivas involucradas (hardware, software y...

This work develops a thorough review of bioimpedance systems for healthcare applications. The basis and fundamentals of bioimpedance measurements are described covering issues ranging from the hardware diagrams to the configurations and designsof the electrodes and from the mathematical models that describe the frequency behavior of the...

Body Sensor Networks (BSN) have emerged as a particularization of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in the context of body monitoring environments, closely linked to healthcare applications. These networks are made up of smart biomedical sensors that allow the monitoring of physiological parameters and serve as the basis for e-Health applications....

Plataforma inteligente y método para la monitorización de la composición corporal y la valoración del estado nutricional y de hidratación de un usuario.La presente invención se refiere a una plataforma, portable e inalámbrica, formada por tres dispositivo

Dispositivo portable y método para la estimación no invasiva del nivel de glucosa en sangre.El dispositivo (1) comprende una unidad de medida (2) con un módulo de medición (4) del nivel de glucosa, un primer módulo de computación (5), para procesar datos

This work addresses the design and experimental characterization of on-body antennas, which play an essential role within Body Sensor Networks. Four antenna designs were selected from a set of eighteen antenna choices and finally implemented for both passive and active measurements. The issues raised during the process of this work...

Non-oncologic chronic pain is a common high-morbidity impairment worldwide and acknowledged as a condition with significant incidence on quality of life. Pain intensity is largely perceived as a subjective experience, what makes challenging its objective measurement. However, the physiological traces of pain make possible its correlation with...

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Sensor inteligente de bioimpedancia para aplicaciones biomédicas capaz de realizar medidas de bioimpedancia en múltiples frecuencias configurables, procesar los datos para obtener el módulo y la fase de la bioimpedancia (o parte real e imaginaria de la bi

El objeto de la presente invención consiste en la mejora de la arquitectura base descrita en la patente de invención P200201710 "Sistema portable para la monitorización del movimiento, estado postural y actividad física de humanos durante las 24 horas del

The design and implementation of a framework that facilitates the development of Mobile Health applications to manage the communications with biomedical sensors in compliance with the CEN ISO/IEEE 11073 standard family are presented. The framework includes a set of functional modules that are responsible, among other tasks, of the communication...

El presente artículo da cuenta de la investigación para la innovación, diseño y desarrollo industrial de un dispositivo médico portable que obtiene datos relevantes de la bioimpedancia humana con precisión clínica, desarrollado en el Grupo de Ingeniería Biomédica de la Universidad de Sevilla en conjunto con el Tecnológico de Costa Rica para su...

Although the roles of body sensor networks (BSNs) are similar to those carried out by the generic wireless sensor networks (WSNs), new solutions must be established to optimize communications for true pervasive biomedical monitoring transparent to the user. In this paper, a proposal of a hardware and software platform for biomedical sensors is...

This work presents a first approach to the design, development, and implementation of a smart device for the real-time measurement and detection of alterations in heart rate variability (HRV). The smart device follows a modular design scheme, which consists of an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal acquisition module, a processing module and a...

Frailty syndrome is an independent risk factor for serious health episodes, disability, hospitalization, falls, loss of mobility, and cardiovascular disease. Its high reversibility demands personalized interventions among which exercise programs are highly efficient to contribute to its delay. Information technology-based solutions to support...

This work presents the design, development and implementation of a smart sensor to monitor the respiratory rate. This sensor is aimed at overcoming the drawbacks of other systems currently available in market, namely, devices that are costly, uncomfortable, difficult-to-install, provide low detection sensitivity, and little-to-null...