Need of WBAN: A Survey

Abstract

WBANs are widely getting flourished in today's world. WBANs are like normal Wireless Sensor Networks with the exception that in WBANs the sensor nodes are placed on the human body itself. The data, be it of any kind conserning body movements (sports and military purposes) and several body requirements (medicine or drugs etc) is send to the doctor or concerned authority through a main node and further action is taken in agreement with the data. In this paper we will discuss the need of WBANs in different fields.