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Wearable Biosensors

The document discusses developments in wearable biosensors like ring sensors and smart shirts. A ring sensor is a pulse oximetry sensor that monitors heart rate and oxygen saturation through a battery-powered processor. A smart shirt was developed at Georgia Tech to unobtrusively monitor vital signs through sensors embedded in the fabric. It allows plugging in different sensors to create a wearable monitoring system. Future trends may include smart shirts that can detect dangerous health conditions and automatically respond to prevent issues like diabetic shock. Wearable biosensors provide remote health monitoring, training support, and safety tracking in various applications.

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Wearable Biosensors

The document discusses developments in wearable biosensors like ring sensors and smart shirts. A ring sensor is a pulse oximetry sensor that monitors heart rate and oxygen saturation through a battery-powered processor. A smart shirt was developed at Georgia Tech to unobtrusively monitor vital signs through sensors embedded in the fabric. It allows plugging in different sensors to create a wearable monitoring system. Future trends may include smart shirts that can detect dangerous health conditions and automatically respond to prevent issues like diabetic shock. Wearable biosensors provide remote health monitoring, training support, and safety tracking in various applications.

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CONTENTS

         

Introduction What is a biosensor ? Need of Wearable Biosensors Developments of Wearable Biosensors Ring Sensor Smart Shirt Applications Future Trends Conclusion References

INTRODUCTION


Use of wearable monitoring devices allow continuous monitoring of physiological signals

Wearable systems are totally non-obtrusive devices that allow physicians to overcome the limitations of ambulatory technology

Detects events predictive of possible worsening of the patients clinical situations

WHAT IS A BIOSENSOR ?
A biosensor is a device for the detection of an analyte that combines a biological component with a physiochemical detector component

NEED OF WEARABLE BIOSENSORS


 Remote monitoring of patients
 

Training support for athelete Monitoring of individuals who work with hazardous elements

Tracking of professional truck drivers vital signs to alert them of fatigue

DEVELOPMENTS
 Ring Sensor 

Smart Shirt

RING SENSOR
 It is a pulse oximetry sensor  Monitors heat rate and

oxygen saturation  CR2032 Battery  ATMEL ATMEGA 128L processor

BLOCK DIAGRAM OF RING SENSOR

APPLICATIONS OF RING SENSOR


 Wireless supervision of people during hazardous operations  In an overcrowded emergency department  Chronic surveillance of abnormal heart failure  In cardio-vascular disease for monitoring the hyper tension

SMART SHIRT(GTWM)
 Smart shirt developed at Georgia tech which represents the first attempt at relying an unobtrusive, mobile and easy to use vital signs monitoring system  Research on the design and development of a smart shirt fort a combat casualty care has led to the realization of the worlds first wearable motherboard  The principal advantage of smart shirt is that it provides for the first time a very systematic way of monitoring the vital signs of humans in an unobtrusive manner

ARCHITECTURE

SMART SHIRT SYSTEM

APPLICATIONS OF SMART SHIRT


 Medical monitoring  Combat casualty care  Sports/Performance monitoring  Space experiments  Mission Critical/hazardous application  Wearable mobile information infrastructure

FUTURE TRENDS


Smart shirt technology opens up existing opportunities to develop adaptive & responsive systems that can think & act based on the user condition, stimuli & environment.

The Smarts shirts delta acquisition capabilities can be used to detect the condition when an individual is lapsing into a diabetic shock and this integrated feedback mechanism can provide the appropriate response to prevent a fatality.

CONCLUSION
Just as special-purpose chips and processors can be plugged into a computer motherboard to obtain the required information processing capability, the smart shirt is an information infrastructure in which the wearer can plug in the desired sensors and devices, thereby creating a system for monitoring vital signs in an efficient and cost effective manner with a universal interface of clothing.

REFERENCES


   

H.Harry Asada, Mobile monitoring with wearable ppg sensors,IEEE engineering in medicine and biology magazine,vol 22, pp- 28-39 may/june2003 Park and Jayaraman, Enhancing the quality of life through wearable technology, IEEE engineering in medicine and biology magazine, vol 22,pp- 41-48 may/june 2003 Handbook of biomedical instrumentation ,Khandpur ,pp138,233,238 R.Neuman,Biomedical sensors,handbook of biomedical instrumentation,pp-725-755 http://www.smartshirt.gatech.edu http://www.wearables.gatech.edu

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