Abstract
The goal of this project is to develop a wireless wearable biosensor for assessing the potential benefits of vitamins and micronutrient supplementation to increase healthspan, the time of one’s life spent free from disease and deficits of daily living. There are 40 million Americans over the age of 65, and this number will rapidly increase to 72 million in less than a generation. The biosensor developed under this research will enable the continuous monitoring of the most important biopotential signals in the elderly, and it also will make it possible to evaluate the effects of vitamins and micronutrients on ambulatory patients. It will integrate a capacitive non-contact sensor with a low-noise amplifier, an analog-to-digital data converter, a digital signal processor, and also a wireless transceiver into a self-contained low-profile device, which can be embedded within clothing for distributed sensing over the whole body. The sensor will be connected wirelessly to a host computer for data classification and interpretation.
Report
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