WEARABLE COMPUTING

Wearable devices are a trending topic in both commercial and academic areas. Increasing demand for innovation has led to increased research and new products, addressing new challenges and creating profitable opportunities. However, despite a number of reviews and surveys on wearable computing, a study outlining how this area has recently evolved, which provides a broad and objective view of the main topics addressed by scientists, is lacking. Wearable computing is a new research field which has undergone huge improvements in the last decade and it seems that it will become even more important in the near future. Unfortunately, designing high performance wearable computing devices is not an easy task and its implementation has faced many challenges. This field is an intersection of different research areas such as computer science and engineering using various technologies such as microelectronics and wireless communication. In this we will see an overview of wireless telecommunication technologies that enable the design of wearable computing devices such as Bluetooth, 3G LTE, Wi-Fi, ZigBee and WiMAX are outlined as well.