WEARABLE BIOSENSOR

Submitted By:
Anuj
Sharma(01517704415)
Dipika (02417704415)
Jaspreet Kaur
(03317704415)

Contents

Introduction
Need for a wearable biosensor
What is Wearable Biosensor
Components of a Biosensor
Ring Sensor
Smart Shirt
Applications
Future trends
Conclusion

Introduction

Use

of wearable monitoring devices allow continuous

monitoring of physiological signals

Wearable

systems are totally non-obtrusive devices that allow

physicians

to

overcome

the

limitations

of

technology

Detects events predictive of possible worsening of

the patients clinical situations

ambulatory

Need for a wearable biosensor

Remote monitoring of patients
Training support for athletes
Tracking of professional truck drivers vital signs to

alert them of fatigue

What is wearable biosensor ?

Wearable Biosensor = Wearable + Biosensor
Wearable
Object that can be worn

on body.
e.g. wrist watches, ring,
shirts etc.

Biosensor
Biosensor is an analytical

device used for detection

of analyte.
e.g.
Blood
Glucose
Detector

Wearable Biosensor
Wearable

monitoring devices that

monitoring of physiological signals.

allow

continuous

They rely on wireless sensors enclosed in items that can be

worn, such as ring or shirt.

The data sets recorded using these systems are then

processed to detect patients clinical situations.

Biosensor is an analytical device, which converts a

biological response into electrical signal.

Components Of Wearable Biosensor

Three main components of wearable biosensors are:
Biological element: For sensing the presence and concentration

of a substance.
Transducer:

The product of interaction of biological

component and sample may be a suitable chemical, charge etc.,
which can be converted by transducer into an electrical signal.

Associated Electronic Devices: The electrical signal may be

further amplified and can be read on digital panels

Types Of Wearable Biosensor

Ring Sensor:
It allows one to continuously
monitor heart rate and oxygen
saturation. The device is shaped like a
ring.
Smart Shirt:

This technology has been used to

integrate sensors for monitoring the vital
signs like temperature, heart rate and
respiration rate.

Working Of Ring Sensor

In order to detect blood volume changes due to heart

contraction and expansion by photoelectric method, normally

photo resistors are used.
Light is emitted by LED and transmitted through the artery

and the resistance of photo resistor is determined by the

amount of light reaching it.
Oxygenated blood absorb more light than deoxygenated blood
A noise cancellation filter is used to cancel the noise due to

motion of the finger.

Applications
Wireless supervision of people during hazardous operations.
In an overcrowded emergency department.
Chronic surveillance of abnormal heart failure.
In cardio-vascular disease for monitoring the hyper tension.

Advantages

Disadvantages

Continuous monitoring.

Initial cost is high.

Easy to use.

Limited number of

Reducing
hospitalization fee

physiological parameters can

be monitored.

Working of Smart Shirt

A combat soldier sensor to his body, pulls the smart shirt on, and

attaches the sensors to the smart shirt.

A signal is sent from one end of the plastic optical fiber to a

receiver at the other end. The emitter and the receiver are
connected to a Personal Status Monitor (psm) worn at the hip
level by the soldier.
If the light from the emitter does not reach the receiver inside the

PSM, it signifies that the smart shirt has been penetrated (i.e.; the
soldier has been shot).

The signal bounces back to the PSM forum the point of

penetration, helping the medical personnel pinpoint the exact

location the solider wounds.
Information on the soldiers wound and the condition is
immediately transmitted electronically from the PSM to a
medical unit.

Applications Of smart shirt

Combat casualty care.
Medical monitoring.
Sports/ Performance monitoring.
Space experiments.
Mission critical/ hazardous application.
Fire- fighting.
Wearable mobile information infrastructure.

Advantages

Disadvantages

Continuous monitoring.

Initial cost is high

Right Treatment at the right time

Battery life is less

Easy to wear and takeoff.

Future Development
Since the development of the glucose sensor

by Clark and Lyons in 1962, generally

recognized as the first biosensor, many
types of sensors have been developed in
which a physical or chemical transducer is
provided with a layer containing a biological
sensing element.
The resulting device is called a biosensor,
aimed to produce an electronic signal as a
function of the concentration of a chemical
or biochemical constituent of a liquid, not

Conclusion
Applied to restricted area of potential market.
Limitations: Sensitivity And battery life.
Advanced technologies such as the smart shirt have at partial

to dramatically alter its landscape of healthcare delivery and at

practice of medicine as we know them today.
It is leading to the realization of Affordable Healthcare, Any

place, Anytime, Anyone.

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