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With recent advances in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), their practical applications in general sensing and monitoring are rapidly broadening. Although originally conceived for wide area environment or process monitoring, WSNs are increasingly being used in biological and healthcare applications. These applications involve the networking of sensors around and/or inside the human body, thus allowing novel interaction paradigms that impact many aspects of daily life, ranging from healthcare or home monitoring to the realization of smart spaces (vehicles, home, office, etc.) in which people have access to information and actions in a virtually transparent way.
Despite the recent technological developments in the fields of sensing (both medical and other types), embedded electronics, and sensor networking, several challenging issues need to be addressed. In particular, technological scaling, wireless communication and networking, sensor data processing and presentation are the key aspects that need to be investigated in an integrated fashion for enabling visionary applications in the area of body area sensor networks.
The aim of this conference is to develop common design guidelines for the field of body sensor networks by bridging the gap between the fields of electronics and telecommunications, computing, bioengineering and applied sciences (medicine) and sensor networking.

BodyNets 07 will thus offer a unique forum for researchers from academia, government and industry to share ideas and disseminate new results in these important areas.