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Wearable sensors: modalities, challenges, and prospects
Ist Teil von
Lab on a chip, 2018-01, Vol.18 (2), p.217-248
Ort / Verlag
England: Royal Society of Chemistry
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Quelle
MEDLINE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Wearable sensors have recently seen a large increase in both research and commercialization. However, success in wearable sensors has been a mix of both progress and setbacks. Most of commercial progress has been in smart adaptation of existing mechanical, electrical and optical methods of measuring the body. This adaptation has involved innovations in how to miniaturize sensing technologies, how to make them conformal and flexible, and in the development of companion software that increases the value of the measured data. However, chemical sensing modalities have experienced greater challenges in commercial adoption, especially for non-invasive chemical sensors. There have also been significant challenges in making significant fundamental improvements to existing mechanical, electrical, and optical sensing modalities, especially in improving their specificity of detection. Many of these challenges can be understood by appreciating the body's surface (skin) as more of an information barrier than as an information source. With a deeper understanding of the fundamental challenges faced for wearable sensors and of the state-of-the-art for wearable sensor technology, the roadmap becomes clearer for creating the next generation of innovations and breakthroughs.
Non-invasive wearable sensing technology extracts mechanical, electrical, optical, and chemical information from the human body.