Mokhtar, BassemKandas, IshacGamal, MohammedOmran, NadaHassanin, Ahmed H.Shehata, Nader2023-03-102023-03-102023-02-27Mokhtar, B.; Kandas, I.; Gamal, M.; Omran, N.; Hassanin, A.H.; Shehata, N. Nano-Enriched Self-Powered Wireless Body Area Network for Sustainable Health Monitoring Services. Sensors 2023, 23, 2633.http://hdl.handle.net/10919/114069Advances in nanotechnology have enabled the creation of novel materials with specific electrical and physical characteristics. This leads to a significant development in the industry of electronics that can be applied in various fields. In this paper, we propose a fabrication of nanotechnology-based materials that can be used to design stretchy piezoelectric nanofibers for energy harvesting to power connected bio-nanosensors in a Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN). The bio-nanosensors are powered based on harvested energy from mechanical movements of the body, specifically the arms, joints, and heartbeats. A suite of these nano-enriched bio-nanosensors can be used to form microgrids for a self-powered wireless body area network (SpWBAN), which can be used in various sustainable health monitoring services. A system model for an SpWBAN with an energy harvesting-based medium access control protocol is presented and analyzed based on fabricated nanofibers with specific characteristics. The simulation results show that the SpWBAN outperforms and has a longer lifetime than contemporary WBAN system designs without self-powering capability.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalwireless body area networksbio-nanosensorsnano-materialsenergy harvestingflexible electronicsArticle - Refereed2023-03-10https://doi.org/10.3390/s23052633