WEARABLE BIOSENSOR

Presented By:
Kirti Gupta
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ECE-B (7th Sem)
 INTRODUCTION

WEARABLE BIOSENSOR= WEARABLE + BIOSENSOR

Wearable Biosensor
 Object that can be worn on  Biosensor is an analytical
body. device used for detection of
 e.g. wrist watches, ring, shirts analyte.
etc.  e.g. Blood Glucose Detector
 NEED OF WEARABLE BIOSENSOR

 Remote monitoring of patients.

 Training support for athletes.
 Monitoring of individuals who work with hazardous elements.
 For continuous monitoring of heart patients.
 WEARABLE BIOSENSOR

 Wearable monitoring devices that allow continuous monitoring of

physiological signals.
 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 patient’s clinical situations.
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.
WORKING OF BIOSENSOR
 TYPES OF WEARABLE BIOSENSOR
There are two types of wearable biosensors:
 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.
RING SENSOR
 ABOUT RING SENSOR
 It is a pulse oximetry, i.e. it monitors the oxygen
saturation.
 It is based on the concept of photoconductor.
 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.
 The photo resistor is connected as a part of voltage divider circuit
and produces a voltage that varies with the amount of blood in the
finger.
 Oxygenated blood absorb more light than deoxygenated blood.
 A noise cancellation filter is used to cancel the noise due to motion
of the finger.
BLOCK DIAGRAM OF RING SENSOR
 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
 Continuous monitoring.
 Easy to use.
 Reducing hospitalization fee

Disadvantages
 Initial cost is high.
 Limited number of physiological parameters can be monitored.
SMART SHIRT
 ABOUT SMART SHIRTS

 Also known as GTWM i.e. Georgia Tech Wearable Motherboard.

 This GTWM (smart shirt) provides an extremely versatile
framework for the incorporation of sensing, monitoring and
information processing devices.
 It uses optical fibers to detect bullet wounds and special sensors and
interconnects to monitor the body vital signs during combat
conditions.
 It is used to integrate sensors for monitoring the vital signs like
temperature, heart rate and respiration rate.
ARCHITECTURE OF SMART SHIRT
 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.
Advantages
 Continuous monitoring.
 Easy to use.
 Reducing hospitalization fee.

Disadvantages
 Initial cost is high.
 Limited number of physiological parameters can be monitored.
 APPLICATIONS OF SMART SHIRT

 Combat casualty care.

 Medical monitoring.
 Sports/ Performance monitoring.
 Space experiments.
 Mission critical/ hazardous application.
 Fire- fighting.
 Wearable mobile information infrastructure.
 Used for mountain climbers.
 ADVANTAGES OF WBS

 Rapid continuous control.

 Facilitate continuous monitoring.

 Easy to use.

 Reduce hospitalization fees.

 Accurate.
 DISADVANTAGES OF WBS

 Membrane may be fouled by deposits.

 Initial cost is high
 Battery life is less.
 Changes can put mechanical and chemical stress on biosensors.
 FUTURE TREND

 The smart shirt can be used to design and experiment “real-time”

feedback mechanism to embrace the quality of care for this
individual by providing appropriate and timely medical inspections.

 Smart shirt’s delta acquisition capabilities can be used to detect the

condition when an individual is lapsing into a diabetic shock and
this integrated feedback mechanism can provide the appropriate
response to prevent a fatality.
 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”.
 REFERENCES
 http://www.smartshirt.gatech.edu
 http://www.wearables.gatech.edu
 http://www.newstechpapers.com
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosensor
 http://www.sensatex.com/smartshirt.htm
 www.seminarprojects.com/Thread-wearable-biosensors
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