ABSTRACT
Wearable technology, in hindsight, has evolved beyond the reach of real-time monitoring systems of general human health – from early simple adhesive bandages to smartphone-operated sensors in the form of bands, watches, and sticky patches. The continual development of constituent technologies has opened up far-reaching, accurate, and highly effective human health monitoring systems. Wearable technology is in fact, a result of the development of several interconnected components. There are various domains in the development of wearable technology such as architecture, fabrication, sensing, data collection, communication possibilities, data processing, telemonitoring of health using artificial intelligence (AI), and cloud storage. In the last few decades, advancements in sensing, fabrication technologies, flexible electronics, and internet operability have opened up various possibilities for the development of novel wearable devices for healthcare monitoring. The underlying issue of capturing contextual information and using it for further treatment remains a challenge for the research community. In this chapter, we focus on various existing technologies contributing to the development of wearable sensing devices. A symbiotic arrangement of such technologies with artificially intelligent systems, data storage, and analysis, and a detailed discussion on the possibilities of the development of future-ready wearable devices have been presented. Also, an overview of existing and future challenges has been presented to help researchers frame the objectives for the further development of wearable sensing devices.
