Novel Flexible Wearable Sensor Materials and Signal Processing for Vital Sign and Human Activity Monitoring

Advances in flexible electronic materials and smart textile, along with broad availability of smart phones, cloud and wireless systems have empowered the wearable technologies for significant impact on future of digital and personalized healthcare as well as consumer electronics. However, challenges related to lack of accuracy, reliability, high power consumption, rigid or bulky form factor and difficulty in interpretation of data have limited their wide-scale application in these potential areas. As an important solution to these challenges, we present latest advances in novel flexible electronic materials and sensors that enable comfortable and conformable body interaction and potential for invisible integration within daily apparel. Advances in novel flexible materials and sensors are described for wearable monitoring of human vital signs including, body temperature, respiratory rate and heart rate, muscle movements and activity. We then present advances in signal processing focusing on motion and noise artifact removal, data mining and aspects of sensor fusion relevant to future clinical applications of wearable technology.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Italian National Conference on Sensors

• Publication date

  2017-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science, Computer Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3390/s17071622PMID 28703744PMCID 5539541
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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