287 American Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences (ASRJETS) ISSN (Print) 2313-4410, ISSN (Online) 2313-4402 © Global Society of Scientific Research and Researchers http://asrjetsjournal.org/ A Survey: Wireless Body Area Network for Health Monitoring Varsha Wahane a* , Dr. P. V. Ingole b a Research Scholar, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati b Prof Ram Meghe Institute of Technology and Research, Badnera a Email: varshasim@gmail.com Abstract With an increasingly mobile society and the worldwide deployment of mobile and wireless networks, the wireless infrastructure can support many current and emerging health care applications. Citizens, being patients or non-patients, will not only be able to get medical advice from a distance but will also be able to send from any location full detailed and accurate vital signal measurements, as if they had been taken in medical centers. Towards this direction, the proposed system is highly customizable vital signal monitoring system based on Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN). The proposed system allows the incorporation of diverse medical sensors via wireless connections and the live transmission of the measured vital signals over public wireless networks to healthcare providers. This paper discusses different scenarios where this wearable health monitoring system can be used and different types of sensors are used to measure the different parameters such as temperatures, glucose, heart beats, ECG, EEG, etc. Finally, through a case study, we demonstrate how the diabetic patient takes the advantage of this system. Keywords: WBAN (Wireless Body Area Network; Sensor; Wireless network; medical server; PDA (personal digital access). 1. Introduction Body area network (BAN), wireless body area network (WBAN) or body sensor network (BSN) is terms used to describe the application of wearable computing devices. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Corresponding author.