Wearable Body-to-Body networks for critical and rescue operations — The CROW2 project

This paper provides an overview of the project Critical and Rescue Operations using Wearable Wireless sensor networks (CROW
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) and discusses the related research challenges and upcoming objectives. The project objective is to provide ubiquitous wireless communication and monitoring systems enabling life-critical and rescue operations. In this context, it is envisioned that wearable Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) will play an important role, and opportunistic exploitation of both On-Body and Body-to-Body communications will enable beyond state-of-the-art and cross-layer communication architecture for wearable WSNs.