Tracker On Body, For Body
TRACK YOUR BODY BY AN ELECTRONIC SKIN
Taking the technology of wearables to the next level, researchers have developed a new electronic skin that tracks heart rate, respiration, muscle movement and other health data, and wirelessly transmits it to a smartphone.
The electronic skin developed by South Korean and US-based researchers has better trackers, greater flexibility, smaller size and the ability to stick the self-adhesive patch just about anywhere on the body.
Body sensors have long been bulky, hard to wear, and obtrusive. Now they can be as thin as a Band-Aid and about as big as a coin.
The wearable contains about 50 components connected by a network of 250 tiny wire coils embedded in protective silicone. The soft material enables it to adapt to the body unlike other hard monitors.
The wearable wirelessly transmits data on movement and respiration as well as electrical activity in the heart, muscles, eyes and brain to a smartphone application.
The coils can stretch and contract like a spring without breaking and are also designed as a spider web pattern that ensures uniform and extreme levels of stretchability in any direction.
“Combining big data and artificial intelligence technologies, the wireless biosensors can be developed into an entire medical system which allows portable access to the collection, storage, and analysis of health signals and information,” said Kyung-In Jang, a professor at South Korea’s Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology.
The team has put a great effort on this device.
The new sensors, created by Kyung-In Jang.
