A novel fused sensor and miniaturised electronics design for the monitoring of a wide range of cardiorespiratory parameters for healthy ageing

Project Member(s): Zhu, X.

Funding or Partner Organisation: NSW Department of Industry (New South Wales Smart Sensing Network NSSN)
NSW Department of Industry (New South Wales Smart Sensing Network NSSN)
Medical Monitoring Solutions Pty Ltd
3 Aim Solutions Pty Ltd

Start year: 2021

Summary: Reliable metrics, obtrusiveness, high/intermittent data-rate, short battery-duration and the need for skin-contact in precise locations i.e. chest/fingers are the major barriers preventing widespread adoption of wearable monitoring devices particularly from older adults that would benefit the most. This project aims to break these barriers. Employing our patented contactless sensor technology for cardio-pulmonary, we plan to integrate the necessary electronics in a single smart microchip capable to extract continuously the required metrics such as respiratory-rate/effort, heart-rate and blood-pressure trend reducing device size (900 to 10 [mm2]) and data-rate (1 Mbps to 10 bps) will enable long-term (24-hours) monitoring i.e. weeks with a single charge.

Publications:

Arboleda, TIV, Laure, KLP, Diangco, MMC, Hora, JA & Zhu, X 1970, 'A 88.6%-Efficient Multi-Input Capacitive-Based Energy Combiner with Adaptive Path Control for WSN-IoT Applications', 2024 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), 2024 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), IEEE, pp. 749-753.
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Comaling, RM, Zhu, X & Hora, JA 1970, 'A 95.71% Power Efficiency DC-DC PFM Boost Converter with Recursive Voltage Supply Technique for Low-Power Energy Harvesting Application', 2024 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Microwave, Antenna, Propagation and EMC Technologies for Wireless Communications (MAPE), 2024 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Microwave, Antenna, Propagation and EMC Technologies for Wireless Communications (MAPE), IEEE, pp. 1-4.
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Ramos, GMMJ, Hora, JA & Zhu, X 1970, 'Zero Loss Active Rectifier with Op-Amp for Piezoelectric Acoustic Energy Harvesting Applications in 22nm FDSOI Technology', 2024 23rd International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT), 2024 23rd International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT), IEEE, pp. 192-197.
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FOR Codes: Microelectronics, Circuits and systems, Biomedical engineering, Medical Instruments, Expanding Knowledge in Engineering, Integrated Circuits and Devices

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