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Sensors 2012, 12, 12473-12488; doi:10.3390/s120912473 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Unobstructive Body Area Networks (BAN) for Efficient Movement Monitoring Filipe Felisberto , Nuno Costa , Florentino Fdez-Riverola * and António Pereira 1,2 2,3 1, 2,3 1 2 3 Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering, University of Vigo, Polytechnic Building, Campus Universitario As Lagoas s/n, 32004 Ourense, Spain; E-Mail: filipe.felisberto@ipleiria.pt INOV INESC INNOVATION, Institute of New Technologies of Leiria, P-2411-901, Leiria, Portugal; E-Mails: nuno.costa@ipleiria.pt (N.C.); apereira@ipleiria.pt (A.P.) Computer Science and Communications Research Centre, School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, P-2411-901, Leiria, Portugal * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: riverola@uvigo.es; Tel.: +34-988-387-015; Fax: +34-988-387-001. Received: 16 July 2012; in revised form: 5 September 2012 / Accepted: 10 September 2012 / Published: 13 September 2012 Abstract: The technological advances in medical sensors, low-power microelectronics and miniaturization, wireless communications and networks have enabled the appearance of a new generation of wireless sensor networks: the so-called wireless body area networks (WBAN). These networks can be used for continuous monitoring of vital parameters, movement, and the surrounding environment. The data gathered by these networks contributes to improve users’ quality of life and allows the creation of a knowledge database by using learning techniques, useful to infer abnormal behaviour. In this paper we present a wireless body area network architecture to recognize human movement, identify human postures and detect harmful