Wearable Sensors for Healthcare: Fabrication to Application

Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay; Nagender Kumar Suryadevara; Anindya Nag

doi:10.3390/s22145137

Wearable Sensors for Healthcare: Fabrication to Application

Sensors (Basel). 2022 Jul 8;22(14):5137. doi: 10.3390/s22145137.

Authors

Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay¹, Nagender Kumar Suryadevara², Anindya Nag^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ School of Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.
² School of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500046, India.
³ Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany.
⁴ Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI), Technische Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany.

Abstract

This paper presents a substantial review of the deployment of wearable sensors for healthcare applications. Wearable sensors hold a pivotal position in the microelectronics industry due to their role in monitoring physiological movements and signals. Sensors designed and developed using a wide range of fabrication techniques have been integrated with communication modules for transceiving signals. This paper highlights the entire chronology of wearable sensors in the biomedical sector, starting from their fabrication in a controlled environment to their integration with signal-conditioning circuits for application purposes. It also highlights sensing products that are currently available on the market for a comparative study of their performances. The conjugation of the sensing prototypes with the Internet of Things (IoT) for forming fully functioning sensorized systems is also shown here. Finally, some of the challenges existing within the current wearable systems are shown, along with possible remedies.

Keywords: IoT; flexible; healthcare; sensors; wearable.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Delivery of Health Care
Wearable Electronic Devices*

Grants and funding

The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) as part of Germany’s Excellence Strategy—EXC 2050/1—Project ID 390696704—Cluster of Excellence “Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop” (CeTI) of Technische Universität Dresden.