Novel Sensor Fusion and Electronics Design for Healthy Ageing
The Challenge
As we age, our physiological and cognitive functions decline. One way of slowing this decline is through better management of the ageing process by monitoring key biometrics. Given ageing occurs over many years and that deterioration can remain undetected before presenting as symptoms. Ideally, the measurement of multiple correlated physiological parameters should be frequent and be inextricably linked to quantified corrective actions (i.e., lifestyle changes and/or therapy), whilst being logged in a traceable history.
Wearable devices monitoring key-biometrics whilst securely cloud-connected are ideally positioned to address this need. Still, many of the current devices can only measure up to a couple of biometrics. In addition, many of these devices require intimate skin contact for reliable and ongoing recording.
The Solution
Working together with 3Aim Solutions, researchers from Western Sydney University and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) are developing novel fused sensors and miniaturised electronics designs, overcoming the issues affecting wearable devices for healthy ageing.
In collaboration with the industry partner, the research team has developed stretchable sensors that are non-invasive, low-power and low-cost. The sensors are designed to work with people’s lives and are specifically designed to simultaneously measure the users’ cardiac, vascular and lung function seamlessly and unobtrusively.
In 2020, the team received funding from the NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN), under the NSSN Grand Challenge Fund Round 1, to devise the smartness required to reliably extract relevant metrics from the data recorded by the existing sensor and to translate the data and trial it versus industry gold-standards.
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