Wireless body area sensor network for posture and gait monitoring of individuals with Parkinson’s disease

Wireless body area sensor network for posture and gait monitoring of individuals with Parkinson’s disease This paper presents a wireless body area sensor network that detects and records real-time posture and gait kinematic data from individuals with Parkinson’s disease. The network comprises wearable sensors placed at lower limbs and back of a human body to measure user’s kinematics. The collected data are transmitted wirelessly to a receiver and stored in cloud-based database. The time series kinematic data is interpreted with adaptive fractal analysis (AFA) to differentiate a healthy subject from another with PD. We use frequency analysis to differentiate spontaneous movement from cued movement of clinical evaluations of several persons with Parkinson disease (PD).