Unlike other books on wireless sensors networks that are geared to the healthcare industry, this unique reference focuses on methods of application, validation, and testing based on real deployments of sensor networks in the clinical and home environments. Moreover, this insightful resource looks at future trends in healthcare and the potential impact of body sensor networks to those trends. Written by industry experts, this volume gives professionals the practical knowledge they need to design and develop wireless sensor networks that meet today's demanding industry challenges and that have the potential to improve healthcare systems in the years to come. Electrical engineers, researchers, application developers and designers whose work involves sensor networks, as well as graduate and postdoctoral students.