Wearable Technology in Healthcare - Maxim Integrated

You might also like

Download as pdf or txt
Download as pdf or txt
You are on page 1of 20

01/08/2022 00:16 Wearable Technology in Healthcare | Maxim Integrated

Search Parametric Search


Maxim / Design Resources / mgineer Blog

Design 

Reference Designs Can Wearable Health Technology Pinpoint Disease O


Design Tools And Models July 14, 2020
Package Materials
By: Ian Chen

Technical Documents
Executive Director, Industrial & Healthcare Business Unit, Maxim Integrated
Cross-Reference Search

Partners And Technology Amidst a global pandemic, innovators and designers are showing ever greater interest in using non-intrusive health-monitoring devices. In
explored the implementation considerations for optical biosensors and commented on the reliability of sensor data. Illustrating the concepts
Mgineer Blog
previously, this post provides an account of our team's challenges and accomplishments in creating a longitudinal health monitor. Our subje
Understand When And Why calves and we monitored them against the onset of bovine respiratory disease (BRD).
System Reliability Matters
An Overview of Bovine Respiratory Disease
How Signal-Chain ICs Form
BRD is one of the costliest diseases to the livestock industry. It is also one of the most extensively studied, with efforts starting in the late 1
Foundation For Smart-Grid
today. Considering the U.S. feedlot industry alone, annual losses attributable to BRD add up to US$1 billion.1
Equipment
BRD refers to a disease complex which results in respiratory infections in cattle. It is particularly difficult to control because it can be cause
Can Wearable Health
pathogens. Pathogenesis involves many factors including stress and possible viral or parasitic infections that suppress the host's immune s
Technology Pinpoint
bacteria to rapidly reproduce in the upper respiratory tract.
Disease Onset?
Livestock operators suffer losses in multiple ways from BRD. First, there is the cost of treating sick animals, some of which require more th
How To Get 20% More
medication. Second, animals in a feedlot are supposed to gain the maximum amount of weight possible, four pounds per day. When a sick
Battery Life For Your
weight at that pace, that missed opportunity to gain weight is a permanent loss in productivity. Third, caring for sick animals increases labo
Wearables And IoT Designs
animals never recover from BRD. BRD is a major contributor to mortality among calves in U.S. feedlots.
Is Your Wearable Equipped
Cattle in U.S. feedlots is a small fraction of the bovine population worldwide. American ranchers harvest nearly 300 million calves each yea
To Support Remote Patient
potentially be victims of BRD. Because the causes for BRD onset is multifactorial, the cattle industry has not been able to reduce the dama
Monitoring?
despite decades of research and improvements in animal welfare.
Biosensors Detect Sleep
Apnea Via Wearable, Monitoring Vital Signs of Cattle
Home-Based Test To improve animal welfare and to reduce costs associated with animal mortality and morbidity, the industry has paid significant attention to
detection. Conventionally, the industry depends on experienced pen-riders who may notice changes in specific animals' behavior and, cons
Tips To Achieve Faster
temperatures. If an animal's core temperature is above 40.5 °C (104.9°F), it is deemed sick with BRD. There is much room for improvemen
Design Of USB-C Power
Solutions First, using a rigid temperature threshold to diagnose BRD ignores the reality that each animal has different nominal core temperatures. 40
Wearable Flags Health average feverish temperature over a large herd of cattle. Some of them have core temperatures that are naturally lower than the average a
Changes In Seniors Via experiencing a fever even when their core temperature is below the threshold. This is the same principle that guides the understanding tha
Biosensors And Predictive personalized health monitoring results in better healthcare for human patients.
Analytics
Second, although most feedlot operators are confident of their pen-riders' abilities, researchers report a majority of harvested cattle examin
Simplify Your PLC Design their lungs, i.e. had suffered (and recovered) from serious respiratory illnesses, even though most were never treated for BRD. In truth, an
With A Digital I/O IC can expect to take care of 8,000 to 12,000 heads of cattle per day. Consequently, each possibly sick animal could command fewer than tw
attention. Furthermore, because of the labor cost required to handle and test a possibly sick animal, riders are trained to err on false negat
Here’s An Easier Way To
worse, the labor pool of pen-riders is aging with fewer experienced hands who could make accurate snap judgments.2 All these factors pro
Keep Your IoT Devices
arguments for the creation of an automated early onset detection system for BRD.
Safe From Hackers
Because a fixed core temperature threshold, 40.5°C, has been the gold standard for diagnosing BRD, there have been a lot of attempts to
Buck Vs. Boost Converters:
on a head of each cow. These attempts include measuring rumen telemetry temperature using an ingested bolus, measuring air temperatu
How Do They Compare
the temperature of the tympanic membrane, measuring skin temperature, and applying thermal imaging to estimate ocular temperature. Th
Power Up Internal Circuits either suffer from very low data reliability or prove to be incompatible with workflow at the feedlot (more on this in the next section).
While Simplifying
Diagnostics For Signal Veterinary medicine researchers investigating other onset symptoms of BRD incidentally reported on SpO2 measured from cattle at differen
Monitoring Applications data showed declining average value as the disease became more severe.3 Since BRD is a respiratory disease, it makes sense that SpO2
respiratory infection compromises oxygen intake. Indeed, experts in the field that we've consulted with agree that SpO2 should be a valuab
Why Hardware-Based However, it also becomes clear that there hasn't been tracking of SpO2 values in a cow through a course of BRD infection to help us under
Cryptography Offers sign may change and whether it is a leading or lagging indicator.
Stronger IoT Design
Protection Use Case and Workflow: Bovine Health Monitoring

High-Speed Serial Links Attaching health monitors to a herd of cattle must conform with the workflow in a feedlot. Working with industry experts, our team quickly le
For High-Performance
ADAS Solutions

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/blog/can-wearable-health-technology-pinpoint-disease-onset.html 1/20
01/08/2022 00:16 Wearable Technology in Healthcare | Maxim Integrated

1. Ear tags are attached to cattle when they are put in a chute. Corralling animals to put them through a chute is labor intensive and is
Crafty Engineers Create
times throughout the entire stay of an animal's time at a feedlot—notably during intake and when animals are sorted prior to harvest
COVID-19 Monitoring
2. Pen-riders check on the animals once a day on average. Animals could receive some attention during feeding, but the process is se
Devices With Arduino
feedlots.
Boards And Maxim ICs
3. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations require alien objects, such as a temperature-measuring bolus in the stomach
Download App For the animal carcass so as not to accidentally contaminate our food supply. However, the head, including the ears, is not considered
Essential Analog IC discarded after slaughter. Indeed, ear tags are already used for identifying and tracing feedlot animals. An animal is tagged as part
Information On-The-Go at the feedlot, and the tag remains on the animal until its harvest.
4. BRD is most prevalent in young calves immediately after they are transported to the feedlot. This is so common that BRD is also
Get More System Power
Once an animal is acclimated to its feedlot, the risk of BRD decreases significantly. However, the value of health monitoring does no
Protection For Less
as mortality cost of an animal increases over time. Most significantly, the industry is keenly interested not just in monitoring anima
When Smarter Gets monitoring their overall health and welfare.
Smaller, Only A Dual-Core
Micro Will Do Concept: Smart Livestock System
Given the established workflow at feedlots, a smart livestock system (see Figure 1) could assist pen-riders by alerting them of animals who
Two Beautiful Ways To
has dropped below the longitudinal norm of that specific animal. The system would consist of an ear tag equipped with SpO2 and other sen
Measure Temperature
wearable fitness devices, ear tags are permanently installed on cattle, so each would monitor approximately the same location on an anim
Understand And Address against data variations associated with how a device is worn from day to day. Even so, we speculate that data could vary as a calf grows a
Threats To Cryptographic hair changes, but we surmise that such variations are slow and could be tracked with an intelligent baseline algorithm.
Systems

Can A Supercapacitor
Replace Your Battery For
Backup Power

What Can You Create With


Frequency Synthesizers?

How Fast And Safe Will 5G


Wireless Networks Be

These Industrial
Communications ICs Are
Oldies But Goodies For
Good Reason

DIY Engineering Projects


For Your Valentine

Why Embedded Systems


Designers Should Care
About OpenSSL

Balancing Power Demands


Of High-Voltage Automotive
Power Applications

PUF Technology Protects


Against Invasive Attacks

Safer Electric Vehicles Start


Figure 1. Diagram of a smart livestock monitoring system.
With A Fast, Accurate
Battery Management The ear tag (Figure 2) would collect sensor data and local processing would extract biomarkers including SpO2. A low-power radio, such a
System LoRa, would transmit these biomarkers to a base station which could conveniently be housed in the office of a feedlot or installed on feed d
Simplify Vehicle Head Unit Algorithms in the cloud could then process the biomarker data, maintain a longitudinal record for each animal and send an alert when the b
Design With Maxim’s Radio markedly from the norm. Biomarker data are only needed to generate at most one assessment per day, so the ear tag could run for a long
Tuner Solution battery.

Moving Toward Value-


Based Healthcare Using
Wearables And Patient-
Generated Data

A Smarter Way To Design


Touchscreens

Want To Avoid
Counterfeiting?

Ultra-Small Wearable
Healthcare Design Platform

Vision Realized In
Advancing Industry 4.0
Solutions

Solving EMI Challenges In


LED Headlamps

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/blog/can-wearable-health-technology-pinpoint-disease-onset.html 2/20
01/08/2022 00:16 Wearable Technology in Healthcare | Maxim Integrated

Figure 2. Ear tag affixed on cow.


Embedded World 2017

Engineering Is For Incidentally, animal hair is not a significant problem for optical biosensing. Hair, like tissue, is a form of protein and is readily penetrated by
Dummies In fact, in young calves weighing at least 300 to 400 pounds, we obtained better perfusion indices in our PPG signals from a calf's ear tag t
watches on smaller humans.
See & Hear Maxim
Technologies At Mobile
World Congress

Keeping Cars Safe And


Reliable Via ISO 26262
Certification

Fast (But Not Too Fast) Op


Amps For Reliable Very
Low-Power Systems

Shade-Proof Your Solar


With Maxim Solar Cell
Optimizers

How Machine Learning Can


Speed Up Your Design
Cycle

MakeWithMaxim Design
Contest

To IO-Link And Beyond!

How 3D Printers Help You


Evaluate ICs

Optical Networking
Technologies OFC 2017

How You Can Help Bring


20.8 Billion Connected Figure 3. PPG data collected from cow ear tag.
Things Into The World
Wearable Prototypes to Test Feasibility
Reference Designs Go
For our examination, we created an ear tag modelled after commercial tags used on cattle. The tag includes an optical PPG using a MAX8
Beyond The IC, Become
end with red and infrared LEDs. Because optical SpO2 measurements are vulnerable to motion artifacts, we included an accelerometer so
Complete Systems
motion and reject any PPG data captured when the tag is moving.
Industry 4.0 Is Coming On
Since the goal of our feasibility study was to find a workable algorithm for cattle monitoring, we set our PPG to sample at 100sps. Bovine h
Strong, And Analog
below 84bpm, which is not much different from the human heart rate. We selected a higher-than-necessary sampling rate to be sure that w
Integration Is A Major
order harmonics of PPG waveforms. We stored all the raw data from the PPG and accelerometer on flash memory on the tag and recovere
Beneficiary
experiments for batch processing. This approach avoids any complexity of data loss from wireless transmission. Clearly, in any production
Putting The Power Of would have to run our algorithm on the ear tag and only transmit a small payload of biomarker data.
Industry 4.0 In Your Pocket
Trying to balance between operating life and the weight of the ear tag, we used a 1000mAh battery. To minimize power consumption, we d
Battery Fuel Gauge ICs Do LED in the PPG since we could get heart rate information, though suboptimal, from red or infrared channels just as well. We were able to r
More about 10 days using our data acquisition scheme (see below).
Reference Designs: Game
Ground Truth—and Its Difficulties
Changers For Complex
Projects It is important when creating a sensor to have a reference, or ground truth. However, getting ground truth of SpO2 on cattle is difficult. Puls
designed to be used by stationary patients in clinical settings, and readings are generally taken as snapshots and not continuously. Undau
Why Hackers Can’t Wait To pulse-oximeter measurements and drew blood from a handful of anesthetized heifers to correlate their blood-oxygen content with our sens
Get Into Your New Car
We took readings using a few different clinical-grade pulse oximeters with the goal of calibrating our ear tag sensors to a reference. While t
Your Home Might Be
readings agreed with each other when oxygen concentration was high, when the blood-oxygen level dropped near around 90%, their resul
Smarter—But How Secure
disagreed with each other. Even examining arterial blood for oxygen concentration was prone to human error, resulting in significant repeat
Is It From Hackers?
attempt to establish ground truth was a bust.
What’s Your Favorite IoT
Stepping back, we realized our objective was to detect the onset of BRD, while a drop of BRD was merely the symptom we were tracking.
Platform? Vote Today!
when an animal gets infected, using a controlled disease challenge study, there are established procedures to determine when a challenge
Achieving Fast, Accurate without having to know the animal's blood-oxygen level.
Fault Detection On Smart
Electricity Grid Experiments
We worked closely with researchers at Texas A&M University AgriLife Extension on a series of experiments. Through a series of design ch
Fitness/Wellness
experimented with different distances between the LEDs and the photodetector in our sensor design to improve perfusion indices for red a
Wearables Reference
also worked to improve the tissue-to-optical-sensor coupling by testing a series of mechanical ear tag designs, which we produced on a 3D
Design Saves Development
printed materials proved to be fragile, and our ear tag assemblies often did not stand up to the rough treatment of prolonged wear by our c
Time And Effort
plagued our experiments, but we believe it could be easily remedied by moving away from using 3D printing. Nevertheless, 3D printing was
Simplifying Design Of Pulse means by which we could change our mechanical design so we could learn and improve faster.
Rate/Blood-Oxygen
Wearables The AgriLife team led us to design a BRD challenge experiment following well-known industry protocol4. The protocol set up two groups of
control and the other to be challenged. The challenged animals were inoculated with Bovine Herpes Virus-1 (BHV-1) and three days later g
haemolytica (MH) using broncho-selective endoscopy. The controlled animals were treated with phosphate-buffered saline solutions follow

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/blog/can-wearable-health-technology-pinpoint-disease-onset.html 3/20
01/08/2022 00:16 Wearable Technology in Healthcare | Maxim Integrated

Don’t Design The Next identical procedures. Both groups were monitored on rumen temperature and feeding behavior and were visually evaluated for clinical sign
Useless IoT Gadget daily monitors, especially any rumen hyperthermia event (upward temperature spike), served to give us the ground truth of BRD onset. For
also took arterial and venal blood samples from the animals' ears a few times over the course of the experiment.
Exactly What The Doctor
Ordered: Cars That Monitor We monitored SpO2 levels compared to a baseline when the animal was known to be healthy. We could simply use R as our biomarker, wh
Their Own Health And
SpO2 ≈ a0 + a1R + a2R2
Yours

Reducing Component In fact, for small deviations around a norm, the relationship between SpO2 and R is roughly linear: the constant a1 is a negative number. So
Count In Factory R increases.
Automation Applications We took time to establish baselines for our references, rumen temperature, and feeding behavior for each animal. One day before we adm
Maxim Highlights Auto, installed our ear tags. The ear tags collected 40 seconds of PPG and accelerometer data every 40 minutes from 9p.m. to 6a.m. each day u
Wearable Healthcare Tech removed or dislodged. The entire process was handled by the AgriLife team.
At CES
Results
Cut 6 Months Off Health Many ear tags proved too fragile to withstand the rough treatment by the animals. Consequently, a significant portion of the sensors were d
Application Design Cycle to provide useful data. Among the recovered data, both R (Figure 4a) and arterial blood-oxygen level (Figure 4b), SaO2, showed a small d
Future Engineers Make norm following the MH challenge. The magnitude of the change is about 50% larger than the normal daily fluctuation of the biomarker (con
With Maxim At Yale’s It is notable that over the experiment period, we experienced two significant thunderstorms and the average nightly temperature changed b
YHack Hackathon changes in environmental conditions did not affect our biomarker.
Interesting Inventions
Inspire Ingenuity

Ants Have Their Own Smart


Cities—Why Can’t We?

Proximity Sensing Made


Easier

Get Longer Battery Life By


Lowering Quiescent Current

Eat Pie And Win A Dev


Board

Why System Monitoring ICs


Are Good Analog Insurance
Figures 4a/4b: Experimental results from cow ear tag monitors, showing aggregated data (4a) and arterial SO2 (4b).
Who Is NanoMan?
Observations and Next Steps
Why Now Is The Time To
Consider Wired Interface The experiment showed that R, and by inference SpO2, is a measurable but weak indicator for the onset of BRD. Physiologically, an anima
Solutions oxygen deficiency any way it can. So if respiratory function is affected during BRD onset, the animal would increase respiratory rate and he
blood-oxygen levels from degrading badly. Only as the disease progresses, and its lung becomes further damaged, would these coping me
Get To Market Quickly With up and blood-oxygen level drop precipitously. As such, measuring rumen temperature via a bolus or monitoring feeding behavior with Grow
Your Secure Wearable provided a much stronger signal for the BRD challenge study. Unfortunately, neither monitoring system fits with the beef production workflo
Health Designs
Attempts at creating an automated system to monitor animal wellness continue. There are some natural follow-ups to our feasibility study.
Why Powerline
Communications Is Great 1. Combine SpO2 (or R) with another biomarker. Using a single biomarker for BRD detection is vulnerable to false triggers
For Noisy Industrial from R is not pronounced, it may be less affected by environmental changes. So combining R with other biomarkers suc
Environments activity may provide more robust predictions.
2. Qualifying SpO2 (or R) with resting heart rate. The optical sensors on our ear tags also provide heart rate of the animal.
How Factory Automation
heart rate should increase as an animal compensates for its compromised respiratory functions. We will have to modify our d
Can Support Reshoring
to capture accelerometer data long before turning on our optical sensors so we could identify resting heart rate.
Don’t Become The Next 3. Improve motion artifact mitigation. Since a cow's ears move continuously, we can still improve our R biomarker detec
Hacking Headline expected motion artifacts.
One Smart Design: Low IQ 4. Study over a much larger population. Each animal reacts to diseases differently. We need data from a much larger popula
Boost Converter breeds, in different climates, at different altitudes to validate any health-monitoring approaches to accommodate the variations
5. Natural BRD onset vs. challenge. BRD occurring in nature does not follow the pattern of a controlled disease cha
A Look At The Future Of algorithms developed using a series of challenge studies may not be as effective in a production feedlot setting.
Wearable Healthcare
Design This study benefited from experts in a multitude of disciplines including animal science, veterinary medicine, bioengineering, optical design
algorithms, as well as the dedication of our applications staff. In an era that touts advances of using Big Data, we find that animal scientists
Camera Interfaces Critical
often lack existing data pertaining to our use case. In our situation, the lack of data could be attributed to the fact that sensors that could co
To ADAS System Design
SpO2 measurements consistently on live animals did not exist. Such sensors were not developed because, until this diverse group of expe
Reduce Calibration Costs together, engineers were not aware of any potential use cases.
For Industrial Process
Nevertheless, researchers remain interested in remote and noninvasive methods to assess animal health and welfare, working to detect no
Control
issues such as bloat and stress. Understanding how to monitor an individual animal's wellness helps us learn how personalized healthcare
Making Smart Energy Even implemented reliably for human patients. Biosensors will continue to play expanded roles. Exciting times are ahead!
Smarter Via NanoPower
Technology Sources
1Bacterial Pathogens of the Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex
We Love Startups! Let Us 2https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268154447_The_Modern_Feedlot_for_Finishing_Cattle
Help You Prototype Quickly 3Blood Gases, Acid-Base Status and Plasma Lactate Concentrations in Calves with Respiratory Diseases
4Effect of Mannheimia Haemolytica Pneumonia on Behavior and Physiologic Responses of Calves During High Ambient Environme

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/blog/can-wearable-health-technology-pinpoint-disease-onset.html 4/20
01/08/2022 00:16 Wearable Technology in Healthcare | Maxim Integrated

Safeguard IoT Designs Tweet Share Share


With Holistic Approach To
Security

Surprising Facts About The


Cost To Operate Your
Electric Car

Keeping Hackers Away


From Your POS Terminals

Webinar: Learn Why It’s


Smart To Have A Low IQ

Why Sensors Are The Next


Big Thing

Building A Self-Balancing
Robot With Feature-Rich
Featherboard

Helping You Create


Rugged, Long-Lasting
Mil/Aero Designs

Why You Can’t Afford To


Overlook Design Security

Why Iso-Buck Converters


Are Better Than Flyback
Converters

Learn Ways To Improve


Power Efficiency—Free
Seminar

Are Machines Taking Over?

Are You Doing Enough To


Build Trust In Our
Connected World?

Aggies Invent: 48 Hours


From Idea To Prototype

IoT World: From IoT


Patterns To Blockchain
Security

Building The Self-Aware


Digital Factory

Flexound Systems Brings


Immersive Dimension To
Music

Better Battery Runtimes


Without Characterization

Driving Greater
Performance And Safety
From Advanced Automotive
Lighting

How Secure ICs Protect


Data In Transit In IoT
Devices

Learn 3 Key Ways To Lock


In Security For Your IoT
Design

Recloser Controllers
Maintain Smart Grid Uptime

Operate Your Design From


A Single Battery, With The
Right Converter

Show Your Engineering


Ingenuity In Summer Of
Love Contest

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/blog/can-wearable-health-technology-pinpoint-disease-onset.html 5/20
01/08/2022 00:16 Wearable Technology in Healthcare | Maxim Integrated

SDR Baseband Processing


—Flexibly And Cost-
Effectively

Embedded Security ICs


Safeguard PCs And
Payments

Want Your Oven To Play


Your Favorite U2 Song?

Choosing The Right Power


Management ICs For
Automotive Designs

Designing Hearables? Tiny


PMICs Boost Battery Life

Designing Accurate,
Wearable Optical Heart
Rate Monitors

Maxim Interns Showcase


Summer Projects

Protect Your Medical


Device Endpoints With
Secure Authenticators

Are Your Power Supplies


Doing The Job?

Tesla Switching To PMAC


Synchronous Drive Motor
For Model 3

3 Cool Technologies For


Virtual Healthcare

NanoMan Says: Use This


Power Design Simulation
Tool

How Fast Can You Solve


This Crossword Puzzle?

Why Not Design A Smaller


PLC?

5 Blog Posts You Don’t


Want To Miss

Q&A: Maxim's Randall


Wollschlager On Designing
The Future Car

Simplify Power Circuit


Design With Simulation

How Medical Wearables


Enhance Quality Of Life

IO-Link Handbook Presents


Primer On Designing
Sensors And Masters

ELIV 2017: Learn Ways To


Design Safer, Smarter Cars

Infomart Creates Tiny


Power-Over-Ethernet
Devices

Advancing Safety And


Infotainment For Cars Of
Today And The Future

How PA Linearization
Solves Key Challenge For
Remote PHY Fiber Nodes

What It Takes To Deliver


Safer, Smarter Cars

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/blog/can-wearable-health-technology-pinpoint-disease-onset.html 6/20
01/08/2022 00:16 Wearable Technology in Healthcare | Maxim Integrated

Many Technologies Are


Vying For Your IoT Wide
Area Network Design

Are Your IoT Devices


Immune To Cyberattacks?

Machine Learning Club


Drives Data Science
Demand

Designing Tiny, Connected


Products? Don’t Miss This
Webinar

How Factory Automation


Can Support Reshoring

How Can We Create One


Trillion Connected Devices?

Modular System Speeds Up


IoT Design Cycle

Keep Designs Cool With A


Tiny, Low-Power
Temperature Sensor

Circuit Protection You Might


Not Have Thought About

You Can’t Steal A Key That


Isn’t There

See Demos Of Turnkey


Security ICs At TRUSTECH

Synchronous Switching
Regulators: Talk Time Or
Standby Time?

5 Ways Solar Power Usage


Will Change By 2037

What Kind Of World Will


One Trillion Connected
Devices Produce?

Can We Fix The


Cybersecurity Mess?

Three Great Personal


Gadgets For Engineers

Secure TLS In Connected


Devices With A Companion
Security IC

Are There One Trillion


Things To Connect?

Maxim To Demo High-


Speed SerDes Links And
More At CES 2018

Achieve Precision Control


Of Vibration For Wearables

Secure Microcontrollers
Safe From Spectre And
Meltdown Flaws

How To Stop An Invasive


Attack On Your Design

Smaller, Lower Power 4-


20mA Sensor Transmitters
For Industrial Equipment

Prevent Battery
Counterfeiting With Secure
Fuel Gauges

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/blog/can-wearable-health-technology-pinpoint-disease-onset.html 7/20
01/08/2022 00:16 Wearable Technology in Healthcare | Maxim Integrated

Applying Peak Current


Mode Control For High
Performance In Switching
Regulators

The Story Behind The


IButton

Meeting Big Demands For


Power In Small Devices

The Jedi Master – Cyber-


Physical Systems And
Industrial Convergence

A Quick Look At Using NFC


To Protect Your System

Get Technical Tips From


Maxim In The Lab Videos

How To Use Your Battery


Fuel Gauge To Build
Customer Trust

Sustaining The IoT—What


Will This Take?

With Reference Designs,


No Need To Reinvent The
Wheel

How A Software Isolation


Solution Protects IoT
Devices

AM Radio In Your Electric


Vehicle? Not Always

Get Technical Tips From


Maxim Unfiltered Videos

Wirelessly Charge Your


Next Design

How Digital Health


Technologies Enable Better
Preventive Care

A Look At The Latest


Battery Technology From
Tesla

#MakewithMaxim Inspires
Engineering Inventiveness

Extend Vehicle Driving


Range With Accurate
Battery Management
System

Plug-And-Play Power In A
Compact Package? You've
Come To The Right Place

Powering Motor Encoders


And Resolvers

Kids Invent Their Future At


Upcoming Invention
Convention

Catch This Webinar If


You're Designing Hearables
And Wearables

Flow Battery Technologies


For Utility-Scale Systems

High-Speed Serial Links


For ADAS And Infotainment

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/blog/can-wearable-health-technology-pinpoint-disease-onset.html 8/20
01/08/2022 00:16 Wearable Technology in Healthcare | Maxim Integrated

Got An IoT Design Idea?


Enter Our Contest

Powering WiFi This And


WiFi That

Meet DARWIN, A New


Breed Of Microcontrollers
For The IoT

Which Type Of Analog Hero


Are You?

How Security ICs Address


New Medical Device
Regulations

Deminar: 3 Ways That


Analog ICs Can Strengthen
Your Design

On-Demand Webinar:
Hardware Security With
PUF Technology

The Beauty Of Precision Op


Amps

Kid Inventors Showcase


STEM Skills At California
Invention Convention

How IButton Can Enhance


Food Quality

Why Your Audio DAC Or


Digital Amp Should Spec
Dynamic Range Instead Of
SNR

Increase Motion Control


System Accuracy With
Higher Performance RS-
485 Transceivers

Designing Secure, Scalable


Contactless Payment
Systems

High-Bandwidth Serial
Links For Safer Cars

Keeping An Eye On Battery


SOC In Wearables And
Hearables

Get High-Speed USB Port


Protection For Industrial
Voltages

Don’t Worry – Isolate All


Those Digital Signals

Keep Tabs On Essential


Electronic Loads With
Supervisory ICs

Optical Sensing Opens


New Opportunities In
Healthcare

LED Bulb Inspires Creation


Of Maintenance-Free
Cybernetic House

A Better Listening
Experience Starts With The
Right Stereo Audio Codec

Quieting The Noise:


Meeting EMI Standards In
Power Supply Designs

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/blog/can-wearable-health-technology-pinpoint-disease-onset.html 9/20
01/08/2022 00:16 Wearable Technology in Healthcare | Maxim Integrated

Making Sweet Music With


Raspberry Pi

Putting Intelligence In The


IoT

Got A Wearable Health


Design Idea? Here’s How
To Make It Accurate

What Will You Create With


Optical Biosensors?

How Can We Power Our


Invisible Intelligence?

What Can GPS Do For Your


Design?

Keeping The IoT Safe From


Hackers

Idea To IoT Product In Just


Days? Talk To ZGlue

Regulate Car Battery


Voltages For ADAS
Applications

Open-Source Framework
Detects Memory
Corruptions In Embedded
Software

Stop Straining Your


Portables—Refine Your
Power Strategies

Choosing The Best Types


Of Temperature Sensors

How To Stop Physical


Tampering Of Mobile POS
Systems

Summertime Fun Outside


The Classroom

Do You Trust Your Smart


Medical Device?

Can You Create An Energy-


Efficient VR Headset?

NanoMan Meets DARWIN


—And Powerful Things
Happen

Consider Your WLAN


Power-Supply Temperature
And PCB Size Carefully

Why On Earth Don’t You


Include A Clock In Your
Design?

Reinforced Digital Isolator


Ensures Safety In Industrial
Environments

CAN Bus Continues Its


Grand Popularity – In
Automotive, IoT, And
Automation

Who Had The Winning


Project In Our
MAX32620FTHR Design
Contest?

Reaching For The Golden


Ring: 4 Key Elements For
Industrial Convergence

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/blog/can-wearable-health-technology-pinpoint-disease-onset.html 10/20
01/08/2022 00:16 Wearable Technology in Healthcare | Maxim Integrated

4 Ways To Extend Runtime


Of Small, Battery-Powered
Electronics

How Are You Managing


Thermal Requirements Of
Shrinking Industrial
Sensors?

Accurate, Wrist-Based
Heart-Rate Monitoring—Six
Months Faster

Getting A Finger On The


Pulse Of Well-Being

LED Controllers Make


Headlight System Design A
Snap

Smaller, Smarter, And More


Powerful ICs—It’s All At
Electronica 2018

Managing Low And High


LED Currents For Matrix
And Pixel Lighting

An Ideal Diode Can Be An


Engineer’s Best Friend

Bring Intelligence To The


Edge Of The Digital Factory

7 Key Steps To
Empowering Innovation

Empowering Secure PIN-


On-Glass Payments At
TRUSTECH 2018

Engineering Intern Creates


Heat-Sensing Robot With
LoRa Technology

So Many Smart Devices,


So Many Security
Vulnerabilities

Why Embedded Systems


Designers Should Care
About OpenSSL

CES 2019 Preview

Secure Authenticators
Protect Artificial Pancreas

A Simple Way To Increase


Factory Uptime

Simpler, More Efficient


Secure Companion ICs For
The IoT

Secure Provisioning
Platform Makes It Easier To
Protect IoT Designs

University Students Gain


Industry 4.0 Experience
With Smart Factory Demo

Want Traffic Updates From


Your Toilet?

Want Your Battery-Powered


Devices To Run Longer?
Here’s How.

Why Embedded Systems


Designers Should Care
About OpenSSL

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/blog/can-wearable-health-technology-pinpoint-disease-onset.html 11/20
01/08/2022 00:16 Wearable Technology in Healthcare | Maxim Integrated

5 Cool Gadgets That


Engineers Might Want To
Unwrap

An Insider's View Of Analog


Artistry At Electronica 2018

One Way To Replace


Power Rail Clusters In
Small Electronic Devices

Engineers Had Better Be


Careful With Algorithms
And AI

Makers Make The Most Of


Analog ICs

Get Inspired To Think Big


And Design Small

How LED Backlight Drivers


Enable Bigger, Higher
Resolution Automotive
Displays

How IoT Sensors Help


Ensure Freshness And
Quality Of Perishables

Fish Tanks Don’t Need


Security—Unless They’re
Part Of The IoT

How Manufacturing
Systems Can Evolve To
Enable The Industrial IoT

Committed To A Smarter,
More Sustainable Future

Squeeze More Out Of Your


Portable Electronics

Cook Up Something
Yummy For Pi Day

Happy Birthday, James Kirk

Using Optical Sensors To


Detect Particles

You Be The Judge Of


Creative Student Inventors

Maxim Is Going To The


Dogs In 2020

Designing For USB-C Just


Got Easier

Tiny, Power-Efficient IO-


Link Transceiver For IIoT
Designs

How Ceramic Voltage


References Enhance Long-
Term Drift Performance

What’s Needed To
Implement Today’s
Industrial IoT Architecture

How Security Supervisors


Safeguard IoT Devices

On-Demand Webinar: Your


FPGA Design Starts With
The Right Power Supply

Tips For Choosing Precise,


Power-Efficient GNSS

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/blog/can-wearable-health-technology-pinpoint-disease-onset.html 12/20
01/08/2022 00:16 Wearable Technology in Healthcare | Maxim Integrated

Receivers For Location-


Based Applications

Digital Instrument Clusters:


Why Functional Safety Is
Important

Channel Your Engineering


Ingenuity For Star Wars
Day

How Will The Industrial IoT


Architecture Evolve

New Power Management


Design Guides For Smart
Buildings And Smart
Factories

Get Better Performance


From Your ADAS Camera
Systems

How To Save Time And


Space With Power Supply
Designs

Reference Designs:
Designed, Built, And Tested
—So You Won’t Have To

Understand How Physically


Unclonable Function
Technology Can Benefit
Your Design

Meet Vehicle Emissions


Standards With Supervisory
And Watchdog-Timer ICs

How To Derive More


System Efficiency From
Battery-Powered Designs

Higher Throughput At
Lower Cost For
Semiconductor Testing

Want To Protect Your USB


Port Without Slowing It
Down?

Sensors Expo: See


Wearable Healthcare
Technologies In Action

4 Reasons To Register For


A Free Design Startup Pack

How To Efficiently Power


Tiny Industrial Sensors

Don’t Go Breaking Your


Heart To Add ECG To Your
Wearable

What You Need To Know


About Battery Management
Challenges

System Loads Are No


Match For This Current-
Sense Amplifier

Power Conversion
Efficiency For Portable
Designs

Why Authenticators
SHOULD Be THE Key To
Your Smart Lock

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/blog/can-wearable-health-technology-pinpoint-disease-onset.html 13/20
01/08/2022 00:16 Wearable Technology in Healthcare | Maxim Integrated

Can Wearables Get People


Off The Couch

How Dynamic Voltage


Scaling Saves Power In
Wearables

Can Wearables Reduce


Healthcare Costs?

How To Get Louder, Richer


Sound From Micro
Speakers

When Is A Digital Output


Not Just A Digital Output?
When It’s Also A Digital
Input!

3 Reasons To Use A
Discrete Real-Time Clock In
Your Wearable Design

How Secure Authenticators


Prevent Counterfeiting Of
Medical Disposables

How To Minimize Power In


Clocking Applications

Are Sensor Clones Stealing


Away Your Customers?

Maxim Summer Interns


Showcase Their Technical
Talents

What’s Driving Industry 4.0?

Breakout Boards Give You


A Head Start On Your
Design

RS-485 Just Got A Major


Stamina Boost!

Why Shrinking Sizes Of


RTCs Is Good News For
Your Portable Designs

The Ins And Outs Of


Voltage Supervisor ICs

See If You Can Steal These


Keys

How Power Management


ICs Support Smart
Buildings

How Analog ICs Fuel


Wireless IoT Sensors

Drive HB LEDs To Brighter


Heights For Automotive
Applications And More

NanoPower Technology
Translates Into Happy
Users

Smartphone For Seniors


Gets Smarter With Health
Monitoring

Deliver Accurate Battery


SOC Data From Your
Wireless Android
Headphones

Like A Good Wine, These


Industrial Communications
ICs Get Better Over Time

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/blog/can-wearable-health-technology-pinpoint-disease-onset.html 14/20
01/08/2022 00:16 Wearable Technology in Healthcare | Maxim Integrated

5 Ways A MyMaxim
Account Enhances
Productivity

Simple Yet Effective –


Never Underestimate The
Usefulness Of The Humble
Comparator!

Look Ma, The Battery Has


Wheels!

How To Safely
Demagnetize Your Inductor
When Using Switching
Inductive Loads

Are Your Car Battery Packs


In Danger Of Failing?

How An Old Digital Dog


Can Learn New Analog
Tricks

CCCamp Badge Is More


Than An Entry Ticket – It’s
A Sensor-Rich Reference
Design

5 Ways A MyMaximAir
Guitar Gets Real With
These Electronic
Instruments Account
Enhances Productivity

Stress Your Power Supply,


Not Yourself

How To Drive Micro


Speakers To Their
Maximum Power Rating

How To Get Accurate In-Ear


Heart-Rate And SpO2
Monitoring

Scare Up Some Electronic


Tricks And Treats This
Halloween

How Wearables Can


Become A More Integral
Part Of Healthcare

Why Long Battery Life Is


The Lifeblood Of Thread
IoT Sensors

Keep Perishables Safe With


Reliable Temperature
Monitoring

Ask Michael: How Do I


Make My High-Current
Sensor IO-Link
Compatible?

PUI Audio Delivers Clean,


Clear Sound From Tiny
Speakers

How Analog ICs Support


Seismic Signal Detection

Reference Designs With


ECAD Files Mean Faster
Circuit Design

How GSEE-TECH Cut 6


Months From Analog Input
Module Development Cycle

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/blog/can-wearable-health-technology-pinpoint-disease-onset.html 15/20
01/08/2022 00:16 Wearable Technology in Healthcare | Maxim Integrated

3 Ways An Integrated Bio-


Algorithm Sensor Hub
Simplifies Wearable
Designs

Intelligent Buildings Get


Smarter And Smarter

Why New ICs Are Needed


To Bring Intelligence To The
Edge

Learn How You Can Design


A Power Supply In 5
Minutes

Ask Michael: Swipe Right


For The Isolated Gate
Driver That’s A Perfect
Match For GaN/SiC
Switches

Experience Wireless
Battery Management At
CES 2020

Can Wearables Help


Prevent The Silent Killer?

Holiday Gift-Giving Guide: 5


Hot Tech Gadgets For
Engineers

Simplify System Power


Design For Your Automotive
Displays

Add Diode ORing Without


Losing Efficiency

Function-Rich Diving
Computer Fueled By
Analog And Power
Management ICs

Getting To Reliable Sensor


Data: Interaction Between
Electronics, Optics, And
Mechanical Design

Calterah Semiconductor
Delivers High-Performance,
Power-Efficient MmWave
Radar Tech

Your Guide To The


Advantages Of Pack-Side
Fuel Gauging

How To Extend The Life Of


Your Smart Factory’s
Wireless Beacons

Uber Driverless Cars, AI


And IoT At CES 2020

Power Up Internal Circuits


While Simplifying
Diagnostics For Signal
Monitoring Applications

Digital Input Design

Location-Tracking Chip IoT


Designs

See How Click Boards


Make It Quick To Evaluate
Real Time Clock ICs

Multichannel ADC Accuracy


For Accurate Sensing

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/blog/can-wearable-health-technology-pinpoint-disease-onset.html 16/20
01/08/2022 00:16 Wearable Technology in Healthcare | Maxim Integrated

Future Of Industrial
Automation Demos At
Embedded World

Complete Wrist-Based
Heart-Rate SpO2 Sensor
Reference Design

How To Create Accurate


Performance-Tracking
Sports Wearables

Robust NAND Flash Wafer


Testers Rely On Low-Power
ATE Drivers

Quickly Simulate DC-DC


Converters With SIMPLIS-
Based Tool

Tips For Achieving Efficient


AC Motor Drive System
Design

Guide To LiDAR Sensors


For Self-Driving Cars

Analog PAM4 Chipset In


Hyperscale Data Centers

Are Biometric Sensors The


Key To Healthier Horses…
And Humans?

Keep Hackers’ Hands Off


Your Battery Packs

Psst…This Fitness
Wearable Tells You Your
Body’s Secrets

ASIL-Grade Camera Power


Protector Safeguards Your
Car Cameras

CES 2020: The Power


Behind Robotics

Is Pulse Transit Time


Needed For Accurate
Blood-Pressure Monitoring
From Wearables?

Need To Design Small,


Reliable Earbuds In A
Hurry? Sometimes It Pays
To Play It Cool…

MediaTek Taps Into GMSL


SerDes Technology For
Automotive Infotainment
Solution

How Analog Devices Are


Enhancing LUXROBO’s IoT
And Robotics Development
Platform

Say “No More” To Tedious


Calculations For E Series
Values

How Secure Authentication


Protects Your Automotive
Designs From
Counterfeiting

How NCATEST Raised


Performance And Lowered
Power Of Its Automated
Test Equipment

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/blog/can-wearable-health-technology-pinpoint-disease-onset.html 17/20
01/08/2022 00:16 Wearable Technology in Healthcare | Maxim Integrated

Ensuring Employee Safety


During An Unprecedented
Time

How LiDAR Delivers Critical


Distance-Sensing For Self-
Driving Cars

Why Does It Take A


Pandemic To Realize The
Value Of Remote Patient
Monitoring?

What’s In
Photoplethysmography
Data? A Look At The
Interaction Between Sensor
Performance And
Algorithms

Charging Your Car’s Battery


– In 1898

Prioritizing Customer Focus


To Save Lives

How Capacitors Provide A


Window Into The Real
Value Of A Battery

What’s All The Fuss About


Cryptography?

Safeguard Smart Medical


Devices For Enhanced
Patient Safety

Making A Difference In The


Global Fight Against
COVID-19

How IButton Devices


Facilitate Electric Car
Safety

How A Small Schottky


Diode Minimizes Noise In
Synchronous Converters

Understand The Multiphase


Buck Voltage Regulator
Advantage

Answering The Call To Help


Maxim Integrated
Customers Innovate In Our
New World

Philips RDT Relies On RTC


To Keep Remote Patient
Monitoring Device On
Schedule

Philips RDT Relies On RTC


To Keep Remote Patient
Monitoring Device On
Schedule

The Keys To How Modern


Cryptography Keeps
Transactions Safe

HollySys Creates Small,


Efficient Industrial
Automation Solutions

How Cryptographic
Algorithms Protect
Embedded Designs

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/blog/can-wearable-health-technology-pinpoint-disease-onset.html 18/20
01/08/2022 00:16 Wearable Technology in Healthcare | Maxim Integrated

Virtual Sensors Show


Brings Latest Technologies
To You

How Performance At The


Edge Drives Smarter
Manufacturing

Don’t Get Cold Feet From


Your ASIL B And Cold-
Crank Specifications

How Soundmatters Is
Making Small, Portable
Speakers Sound Better

How Miromico Designed


The Industry’s Smallest
LoRaWAN Module For The
IoT

What Makes PUF


Technology One Of The
Best Protections In
Cryptography?

Extend The Battery Life Of


Your Vehicle Tracker/Asset
Tracker/IoT Device 10-Fold
With Maxim’s Ultra-Low
Power GPS Solution

What Makes Cryptography


Easier? Secure
Authenticators And
Coprocessors

How Being Bold Brings


Smart Automation Solutions

The Dawn Of The Self-


Aware Machine

On The Go Vital Monitoring


And Gaming Platform

Can We Find Common


Ground On Common Mode
Range?

Slash Power Dissipation


With Maxim’s Industrial
Protected Low-Side Digital
Output Solution

Assistant Excellence
Conference - It Takes Two

Two Tools To Ease Inductor


Selection

More NanoPower
Technology™ Tools For
Your Toolkit

The Smallest Arm Cortex-


M4 Microcontroller In The
World

No-Opto Isolated DC-DC


Flybacks For Smart
Factories And Building
Automation

Smart Wake-Up For


Security And Home
Monitoring Cameras

Keep The Lights On When


Someone Is Home

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/blog/can-wearable-health-technology-pinpoint-disease-onset.html 19/20
01/08/2022 00:16 Wearable Technology in Healthcare | Maxim Integrated

Enabling Industry 4.0 With


Low Power, Secure &
Reliable Microcontrollers

Differences Between
DS2431 And DS28E07

Relieving Supply Chain


Issues Of The 1-Wire
Silicon Serial Number Chip

Just 1-Wire To Operate


I2C/SPI Endpoints

Customer Testimonials

Glossary Of EE Terms

Knowledge Base Search

Blogs

About Us Contact Us Ordering FAQ Investor Relations

Customer Testimonials Customer Support Worldwide Franchised Corporate Responsibility


Distributors
Careers Technical Support

Copyright © 2022 Maxim Integrated® Contact Us Careers Legal Privacy Cookie Policy Site Map Privacy Preference Manager

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/blog/can-wearable-health-technology-pinpoint-disease-onset.html 20/20

You might also like