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Abstract
People with chronic health issues and the elderly need continuous attention thus the 24/7 monitoring is necessary. Since continuous hospitalization is undesirable and too costly, wearable sensors were considered as a new affordable solution. Wearable electronic sensors acquire and save or monitor the health state by providing physicians with an entirely new set of continuous data recorded over a wide range of time.
Despite vast applications and tremendous potential to impact our lives, wearable electronics sensors still face many difficulties such as problems in the battery, easy usage, and lack of coverage of key vital signs. Many ideas, projects, prototypes, and products are available on the market, but still, its utilization is not as wide as awaited which returns to the design and implementation of WES.
After extensively applied researches on fiber sensors, EcoWES reached a multi-material fiber that has superlative properties in sensing vital signs. By utilizing conductive polymer-clad silica nanofiber, microelectromechanical technology, and digital signal processing algorithm, EcoWES has developed a wearable electronic sensor for measuring heart rate, body temperature, and motion shock. To overcome the energy limitation, EcoWES
uses a high-performance battery, low consumption components, the harvesting ambient energy of mechanical movement, and temperature differences. A combination of the technology of Near Field Communication (NFC) and Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-256) provides an appropriate secure encryption protocol for medical data handling. EcoWES's wearable electronic sensor is integrated into specified places of a stretch textile of dress which can comfortably be used by elderly people, athletes, and people with chronic health issues.
Despite vast applications and tremendous potential to impact our lives, wearable electronics sensors still face many difficulties such as problems in the battery, easy usage, and lack of coverage of key vital signs. Many ideas, projects, prototypes, and products are available on the market, but still, its utilization is not as wide as awaited which returns to the design and implementation of WES.
After extensively applied researches on fiber sensors, EcoWES reached a multi-material fiber that has superlative properties in sensing vital signs. By utilizing conductive polymer-clad silica nanofiber, microelectromechanical technology, and digital signal processing algorithm, EcoWES has developed a wearable electronic sensor for measuring heart rate, body temperature, and motion shock. To overcome the energy limitation, EcoWES
uses a high-performance battery, low consumption components, the harvesting ambient energy of mechanical movement, and temperature differences. A combination of the technology of Near Field Communication (NFC) and Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-256) provides an appropriate secure encryption protocol for medical data handling. EcoWES's wearable electronic sensor is integrated into specified places of a stretch textile of dress which can comfortably be used by elderly people, athletes, and people with chronic health issues.
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The improvement of the healthcare system leads to an elderly population as an indirect consequence that raises new health issues and needs. Elderly people tend to live in their homes and thus real-time monitoring of their well-being and health is very useful specifically with automated tools such as Wearable Electronic Sensors (WES) that can be attached to humans to measure, acquire and monitor physiological parameters of interest.
Indeed, people with chronic health issues and the elderly need continuous attention thus the 24/7 monitoring is necessary. Since continuous hospitalization is undesirable and too costly, wearable sensors were considered as a new affordable solution. This technology through medical data analysis and abnormal data points detection could be useful for chronic illnesses such as cardiopulmonary disease, asthma, heart failure or arrhythmia, hypertension, hypotension, hyperthermia, stroke, fever, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), or at-risk seniors living in their own homes, and also in the case of infectious disease by managing care for lower-risk patients remotely, as well as health coaching for athletes or Veterans Health Administration.
Wearable electronic sensors acquire and save or monitor the health state by providing physicians with an entirely new set of continuous data recorded over a wide range of time, unlike standard short time examinations of medical procedures. The real-time gathered and recorded data continuously provide more valuable, rich and consistent information about the patient status. Despite vast applications and tremendous potential to impact our lives, wearable electronics sensors still face many difficulties such as problems in the battery, easy usage, viability, and lack of coverage of key vital signs. Many ideas, projects, prototypes and products are available on the market, but still, its utilization is not as wide as awaited which returns to the design and implementation of WES.
The achievable objective of EcoWES is presenting a wearable sensor that covers the weakness of current WES devices in the medical market by utilizing a set of new technologies such as conductive polymer-clad silica nanofiber, microelectromechanical technology and digital signal processing algorithms, Near Field Communication (NFC), Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-256), super-fast charge high-performance batteries, very low energy consumption Microchips and harvest ambient energy. The smart WES of EcoWES
has competitive advantages over the existing wearable sensors in the market that make it unique such as measuring the most important parameters of vital signs (heart rate, body temperature, respiration rhythm, and motion shock), low cost, high security of medical data, Date Recue/Date Received 2022-12-13 observance of social and ethical factors, very low energy consumption, no battery required by automatic harvesting energy, non-invasiveness, affordable, easy usage, washable and viable.
In the field of Wearable Electronic Sensors (WES) which is the subset of digital health, vast research has been done around the world. Most of these researches are in the phase of laboratory prototype and they have not been commercialized so far. One of research that is similar to the structure and concept of the EcoWES product is the laboratory sample of MIT
University. Before starting the main activity and research on the EcoWES idea, several wearable sensors were practically experimented such as biometric sensors in the form of a watch, belt and ring. The advantages and disadvantages of various types of available wearable sensors were gathered as a foundation to define the objectives of designing and implementing a novel WES entitled EcoWES.
MIT researchers have developed a way to incorporate electronic sensors into stretchy fabrics, allowing them to create shirts or other garments that could be used to monitor vital signs such as temperature, respiration, and heart rate. Other research groups have developed thin, skin-like patches that can measure temperature and other vital signs, but these are delicate and must be taped to the skin. Dagdeviren's Conformable Decoders group at the Media Lab set out to create garments more similar to the clothes, using a stretchy fabric that has removable electronic sensors incorporated into it.
All of the mentioned researches are in the phase of laboratory samples.
Wearables are small electronic devices, often consisting of one or more sensors with computational capability. In the market, various types of Wearable Electronic Sensors are accessible which have embedded into items attached to the body, such as a user's head, feet, arms, wrists and waist. They can resemble a watch, eyeglasses, clothing, contact lenses, shoes or even jewelry. Wearables either capture data or present data.
The types of data collected could be as simple as the number of steps taken in a day or as complex as ECG or brainwave measurements. Most of the presented wearables in the market are designed for the purpose of fitness & sport, general consumer, and fashion &
appeal that because of different applications from medical and health, they have not been considered in the comparison report.
Nowadays, hospitals are equipped with advanced electronic equipment that provides the best medical care possible. The improvement of the healthcare process leads to an elderly population as an indirect consequence that raises new health issues and needs.
Elderly Date Recue/Date Received 2022-12-13 people tend to live in their homes and thus real-time monitoring of their well-being and health is very useful specifically with automated tools such as Wearable Electronic Sensors (WES). Indeed, people with chronic health issues and the elderly need continuous attention thus the 24/7 monitoring is necessary. Since continuous hospitalization is undesirable and too costly, wearable sensors were considered as a new affordable solution.
Wearable Electronics Sensors are devices that can be attached to humans to measure, acquire and monitor physiological parameters of interest.
Wearable electronic sensors acquire and save or monitor the health state by providing physicians with an entirely new set of continuous data recorded over a wide range of time, unlike standard short time examinations of medical procedures. The real-time gathered and recorded data continuously provide more valuable, rich and consistent information about the patient status. Besides, recording and monitoring the health data of athletes during the exercise or play make possible the control of health status over athletes and keep them from unpredicted medical problems. Consequently, this gives rise to new health needs.
Despite vast applications and tremendous potential to impact our lives, wearable electronics sensors still face many difficulties. Many ideas, projects, prototypes and products are available on the market, but still, its utilization is not as wide as awaited which returns to the design and implementation of WES.
Nanotechnology in wearable sensors for smart fiber and textile has not currently been launched as a commercial product and mostly is in research and development phases without disclosure of nanomaterial details. Any small changes in the quantity and order of nanomaterial combination affect the characteristics and performance of nanocoating sensors. After extensively applied research on fiber sensors, the EcoWES team reached a multi-material fiber that has superlative properties in sensing vital signs. A
new combining formula was obtained after extended research on nanomaterials for fiber coating by a hired chemistry engineering team. In comparison with recently available research, the developed multi-material nanocoating by EcoWES has a high value of Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) in receiving vital signs which as a feature indicates the performance of the developed nanofiber in health monitoring applications. The characteristics of the obtained multi-material fiber indicate sensing quality with high performance in capturing vital signs. It should be mentioned that a few more optimizations are needed to complete the process.
By utilizing conductive polymer-clad silica nanofiber, microelectromechanical technology and a digital signal processing algorithm, the EcoWES group develops a wearable Date Recue/Date Received 2022-12-13 electronic sensor for measuring heart rate, body temperature, respiration rhythm, and motion shock. The objective measurement parameters are the most important vital signs for health tracking including heart status, respiration rhythm, fever amount, and collision intensity. In order to overcome the limitation of batteries as the power source, EcoWES
uses super-fast charge high-performance lithium-ion batteries with the technology of hybrid anode, in addition, to minimize the energy consumption and harvest ambient energy.
Mechanical movement and temperature differences are used as two sources of harvest energy. Fiber sensors are used to measure heart rate, respiration rhythm, and body temperature as well as a source of energy due to temperature differences. A
microelectromechanical chip is used to absorb the mechanical energy of movement in addition to sensing motion shock.
A combination of the technology of Near Field Communication (NFC) and Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-256) provides an appropriate secure encryption protocol for data handling and transmission to maintain data privacy as well as optimizing the energy of medical data transmission. Data security is a very important factor for a successful WES
since users are quite skeptical when their privacy is not assured and therefore they are less tempted to wear the device if they don't feel comfortable about their personal medical data.
The EcoWES innovative wearable electronic sensor is integrated into specified places of a stretch textile of dress which can comfortably be used by elderly people, athletes and people with chronic health issues. The following figure shows the end-to-end process of the EcoWES product and how the device works by connectivity between the persons under health supervision and the central monitoring system of the relevant physician.
/- _________________________________________ -, 111.0,ital Signs E co whc, NFC Mobile Persoil under t, Health Monitoring ____________ to Module Encrypted Phone Energy ___________________________________________ i , 1 Encrypted Data Person 2 under 4-1,-Health Monitoring . Central Monitoring System Person n under (Doctor Supervision) Health Monitoring ______________ , Date Recue/Date Received 2022-12-13 The prototype of the EcoWES product including the equipped T-Shirt with sensors, programmed processor to measure and transfer vital signs data through NFC can be seen in the following figure.
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Signals' cluino =============0 Digital Slignal Processing 1,:tirs45:2-Data Encryption The product of EcoWES is equipped with smart supervision application software that automatically supervises the vital signs of the person. In the occurrence of an issue that is detected based on irregular patterns in the data of vital signs and has been trained to the AI-based application, immediately, an alarm message will be sent to the predefined physician which includes a short report of the abnormality issue and the current situation of the person under supervision. If no reply is received from the physician, a second alarm message will be sent. If the main supervision center of EcoWES doesn't receive any reply from the practitioner in a specified time, the supervision system will automatically contact the emergency physician and a message according to the health condition and location information of the patient will be issued. Simultaneously, the EcoWES
monitoring system sends a message to the specified persons such as family members and Personal Support Worker (PSW) to react faster about the issue. Therefore, the developed supervision system works as a smart health center in which its supervision is distributed in the living locations of the under-covered consumers and controls the situations.
The smart WES of EcoWES has the following competitive advantages over the existing wearable sensors in the market and research centers.
Date Recue/Date Received 2022-12-13 - Measure the most important parameters of vital signs including heart rate, respiration rhythm, body temperature, and physical shock due to possible fall down - High security of medical data using Blockchain technology - Observance of social and ethical factors - Very low energy consumption - No battery required by automatic harvest energy including body temperature and movement - Al-based supervision center for controlling the distributed care of personal health - Non-invasiveness - Affordable - Washable - Viable Date Recue/Date Received 2022-12-13
The improvement of the healthcare system leads to an elderly population as an indirect consequence that raises new health issues and needs. Elderly people tend to live in their homes and thus real-time monitoring of their well-being and health is very useful specifically with automated tools such as Wearable Electronic Sensors (WES) that can be attached to humans to measure, acquire and monitor physiological parameters of interest.
Indeed, people with chronic health issues and the elderly need continuous attention thus the 24/7 monitoring is necessary. Since continuous hospitalization is undesirable and too costly, wearable sensors were considered as a new affordable solution. This technology through medical data analysis and abnormal data points detection could be useful for chronic illnesses such as cardiopulmonary disease, asthma, heart failure or arrhythmia, hypertension, hypotension, hyperthermia, stroke, fever, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), or at-risk seniors living in their own homes, and also in the case of infectious disease by managing care for lower-risk patients remotely, as well as health coaching for athletes or Veterans Health Administration.
Wearable electronic sensors acquire and save or monitor the health state by providing physicians with an entirely new set of continuous data recorded over a wide range of time, unlike standard short time examinations of medical procedures. The real-time gathered and recorded data continuously provide more valuable, rich and consistent information about the patient status. Despite vast applications and tremendous potential to impact our lives, wearable electronics sensors still face many difficulties such as problems in the battery, easy usage, viability, and lack of coverage of key vital signs. Many ideas, projects, prototypes and products are available on the market, but still, its utilization is not as wide as awaited which returns to the design and implementation of WES.
The achievable objective of EcoWES is presenting a wearable sensor that covers the weakness of current WES devices in the medical market by utilizing a set of new technologies such as conductive polymer-clad silica nanofiber, microelectromechanical technology and digital signal processing algorithms, Near Field Communication (NFC), Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-256), super-fast charge high-performance batteries, very low energy consumption Microchips and harvest ambient energy. The smart WES of EcoWES
has competitive advantages over the existing wearable sensors in the market that make it unique such as measuring the most important parameters of vital signs (heart rate, body temperature, respiration rhythm, and motion shock), low cost, high security of medical data, Date Recue/Date Received 2022-12-13 observance of social and ethical factors, very low energy consumption, no battery required by automatic harvesting energy, non-invasiveness, affordable, easy usage, washable and viable.
In the field of Wearable Electronic Sensors (WES) which is the subset of digital health, vast research has been done around the world. Most of these researches are in the phase of laboratory prototype and they have not been commercialized so far. One of research that is similar to the structure and concept of the EcoWES product is the laboratory sample of MIT
University. Before starting the main activity and research on the EcoWES idea, several wearable sensors were practically experimented such as biometric sensors in the form of a watch, belt and ring. The advantages and disadvantages of various types of available wearable sensors were gathered as a foundation to define the objectives of designing and implementing a novel WES entitled EcoWES.
MIT researchers have developed a way to incorporate electronic sensors into stretchy fabrics, allowing them to create shirts or other garments that could be used to monitor vital signs such as temperature, respiration, and heart rate. Other research groups have developed thin, skin-like patches that can measure temperature and other vital signs, but these are delicate and must be taped to the skin. Dagdeviren's Conformable Decoders group at the Media Lab set out to create garments more similar to the clothes, using a stretchy fabric that has removable electronic sensors incorporated into it.
All of the mentioned researches are in the phase of laboratory samples.
Wearables are small electronic devices, often consisting of one or more sensors with computational capability. In the market, various types of Wearable Electronic Sensors are accessible which have embedded into items attached to the body, such as a user's head, feet, arms, wrists and waist. They can resemble a watch, eyeglasses, clothing, contact lenses, shoes or even jewelry. Wearables either capture data or present data.
The types of data collected could be as simple as the number of steps taken in a day or as complex as ECG or brainwave measurements. Most of the presented wearables in the market are designed for the purpose of fitness & sport, general consumer, and fashion &
appeal that because of different applications from medical and health, they have not been considered in the comparison report.
Nowadays, hospitals are equipped with advanced electronic equipment that provides the best medical care possible. The improvement of the healthcare process leads to an elderly population as an indirect consequence that raises new health issues and needs.
Elderly Date Recue/Date Received 2022-12-13 people tend to live in their homes and thus real-time monitoring of their well-being and health is very useful specifically with automated tools such as Wearable Electronic Sensors (WES). Indeed, people with chronic health issues and the elderly need continuous attention thus the 24/7 monitoring is necessary. Since continuous hospitalization is undesirable and too costly, wearable sensors were considered as a new affordable solution.
Wearable Electronics Sensors are devices that can be attached to humans to measure, acquire and monitor physiological parameters of interest.
Wearable electronic sensors acquire and save or monitor the health state by providing physicians with an entirely new set of continuous data recorded over a wide range of time, unlike standard short time examinations of medical procedures. The real-time gathered and recorded data continuously provide more valuable, rich and consistent information about the patient status. Besides, recording and monitoring the health data of athletes during the exercise or play make possible the control of health status over athletes and keep them from unpredicted medical problems. Consequently, this gives rise to new health needs.
Despite vast applications and tremendous potential to impact our lives, wearable electronics sensors still face many difficulties. Many ideas, projects, prototypes and products are available on the market, but still, its utilization is not as wide as awaited which returns to the design and implementation of WES.
Nanotechnology in wearable sensors for smart fiber and textile has not currently been launched as a commercial product and mostly is in research and development phases without disclosure of nanomaterial details. Any small changes in the quantity and order of nanomaterial combination affect the characteristics and performance of nanocoating sensors. After extensively applied research on fiber sensors, the EcoWES team reached a multi-material fiber that has superlative properties in sensing vital signs. A
new combining formula was obtained after extended research on nanomaterials for fiber coating by a hired chemistry engineering team. In comparison with recently available research, the developed multi-material nanocoating by EcoWES has a high value of Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) in receiving vital signs which as a feature indicates the performance of the developed nanofiber in health monitoring applications. The characteristics of the obtained multi-material fiber indicate sensing quality with high performance in capturing vital signs. It should be mentioned that a few more optimizations are needed to complete the process.
By utilizing conductive polymer-clad silica nanofiber, microelectromechanical technology and a digital signal processing algorithm, the EcoWES group develops a wearable Date Recue/Date Received 2022-12-13 electronic sensor for measuring heart rate, body temperature, respiration rhythm, and motion shock. The objective measurement parameters are the most important vital signs for health tracking including heart status, respiration rhythm, fever amount, and collision intensity. In order to overcome the limitation of batteries as the power source, EcoWES
uses super-fast charge high-performance lithium-ion batteries with the technology of hybrid anode, in addition, to minimize the energy consumption and harvest ambient energy.
Mechanical movement and temperature differences are used as two sources of harvest energy. Fiber sensors are used to measure heart rate, respiration rhythm, and body temperature as well as a source of energy due to temperature differences. A
microelectromechanical chip is used to absorb the mechanical energy of movement in addition to sensing motion shock.
A combination of the technology of Near Field Communication (NFC) and Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-256) provides an appropriate secure encryption protocol for data handling and transmission to maintain data privacy as well as optimizing the energy of medical data transmission. Data security is a very important factor for a successful WES
since users are quite skeptical when their privacy is not assured and therefore they are less tempted to wear the device if they don't feel comfortable about their personal medical data.
The EcoWES innovative wearable electronic sensor is integrated into specified places of a stretch textile of dress which can comfortably be used by elderly people, athletes and people with chronic health issues. The following figure shows the end-to-end process of the EcoWES product and how the device works by connectivity between the persons under health supervision and the central monitoring system of the relevant physician.
/- _________________________________________ -, 111.0,ital Signs E co whc, NFC Mobile Persoil under t, Health Monitoring ____________ to Module Encrypted Phone Energy ___________________________________________ i , 1 Encrypted Data Person 2 under 4-1,-Health Monitoring . Central Monitoring System Person n under (Doctor Supervision) Health Monitoring ______________ , Date Recue/Date Received 2022-12-13 The prototype of the EcoWES product including the equipped T-Shirt with sensors, programmed processor to measure and transfer vital signs data through NFC can be seen in the following figure.
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Signals' cluino =============0 Digital Slignal Processing 1,:tirs45:2-Data Encryption The product of EcoWES is equipped with smart supervision application software that automatically supervises the vital signs of the person. In the occurrence of an issue that is detected based on irregular patterns in the data of vital signs and has been trained to the AI-based application, immediately, an alarm message will be sent to the predefined physician which includes a short report of the abnormality issue and the current situation of the person under supervision. If no reply is received from the physician, a second alarm message will be sent. If the main supervision center of EcoWES doesn't receive any reply from the practitioner in a specified time, the supervision system will automatically contact the emergency physician and a message according to the health condition and location information of the patient will be issued. Simultaneously, the EcoWES
monitoring system sends a message to the specified persons such as family members and Personal Support Worker (PSW) to react faster about the issue. Therefore, the developed supervision system works as a smart health center in which its supervision is distributed in the living locations of the under-covered consumers and controls the situations.
The smart WES of EcoWES has the following competitive advantages over the existing wearable sensors in the market and research centers.
Date Recue/Date Received 2022-12-13 - Measure the most important parameters of vital signs including heart rate, respiration rhythm, body temperature, and physical shock due to possible fall down - High security of medical data using Blockchain technology - Observance of social and ethical factors - Very low energy consumption - No battery required by automatic harvest energy including body temperature and movement - Al-based supervision center for controlling the distributed care of personal health - Non-invasiveness - Affordable - Washable - Viable Date Recue/Date Received 2022-12-13
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By utilizing conductive polymer-clad silica nanofiber, microelectromechanical technology and a digital signal processing algorithm, the EcoWES group develops a wearable electronic sensor for measuring heart rate, body temperature, respiration rhythm, and motion shock. The objective measurement parameters are the most important vital signs for health tracking including heart status, respiration rhythm, fever amount, and collision intensity. In order to overcome the limitation of batteries as the power source, EcoWES
uses super-fast charge high-performance lithium-ion batteries with the technology of hybrid anode, in addition, to minimize the energy consumption and harvest ambient energy.
Mechanical movement and temperature differences are used as two sources of harvest energy. Fiber sensors are used to measure heart rate, respiration rhythm, and body temperature as well as a source of energy due to temperature differences. A
microelectromechanical chip is used to absorb the mechanical energy of movement in addition to sensing motion shock.
A combination of the technology of Near Field Communication (NFC) and Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-256) provides an appropriate secure encryption protocol for data handling and transmission to maintain data privacy as well as optimizing the energy of medical data transmission. Data security is a very important factor for a successful WES
since users are quite skeptical when their privacy is not assured and therefore they are less tempted to wear the device if they don't feel comfortable about their personal medical data.
The EcoWES innovative wearable electronic sensor is integrated into specified places of a stretch textile of dress which can comfortably be used by elderly people, athletes and people with chronic health issues.
The product of EcoWES is equipped with smart supervision application software that automatically supervises the vital signs of the person. In the occurrence of an issue that is detected based on irregular patterns in the data of vital signs and has been trained to the AI-based application, immediately, an alarm message will be sent to the predefined physician which includes a short report of the abnormality issue and the current situation of the person under supervision. If no reply is received from the physician, a second alarm message will be sent. If the main supervision center of EcoWES doesn't receive any reply from the practitioner in a specified time, the supervision system will automatically contact the emergency physician and a message according to the health condition and location information of the patient will be issued. Simultaneously, the EcoWES
monitoring system Date Recue/Date Received 2022-1 2-1 3 sends a message to the specified persons such as family members and Personal Support Worker (PSW) to react faster about the issue. Therefore, the developed supervision system works as a smart health center in which its supervision is distributed in the living locations of the under-covered consumers and controls the situations.
The smart WES of EcoWES has the following competitive advantages over the existing wearable sensors in the market.
- Measure the most important parameters of vital signs including heart rate, respiration rhythm, body temperature, and physical shock due to possible fall down - High security of medical data using Blockchain technology - Observance of social and ethical factors - Very low energy consumption - No battery required by automatic harvest energy including body temperature and movement - Al-based supervision center for controlling the distributed care of personal health - Non-invasiveness - Affordable - Washable - Viable Different parts of the project novelties:
- Producing multi-material fiber for sensing vital signs with conductive polymer-clad silica nanofiber - Utilizing microelectromechanical technology to generate energy and shock sensing - Digital signal processing algorithms to recognize abnormal health events - High-security coding technology to transmit medical data through Near Field Communication (NFC) Date Recue/Date Received 2022-1 2-1 3
By utilizing conductive polymer-clad silica nanofiber, microelectromechanical technology and a digital signal processing algorithm, the EcoWES group develops a wearable electronic sensor for measuring heart rate, body temperature, respiration rhythm, and motion shock. The objective measurement parameters are the most important vital signs for health tracking including heart status, respiration rhythm, fever amount, and collision intensity. In order to overcome the limitation of batteries as the power source, EcoWES
uses super-fast charge high-performance lithium-ion batteries with the technology of hybrid anode, in addition, to minimize the energy consumption and harvest ambient energy.
Mechanical movement and temperature differences are used as two sources of harvest energy. Fiber sensors are used to measure heart rate, respiration rhythm, and body temperature as well as a source of energy due to temperature differences. A
microelectromechanical chip is used to absorb the mechanical energy of movement in addition to sensing motion shock.
A combination of the technology of Near Field Communication (NFC) and Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-256) provides an appropriate secure encryption protocol for data handling and transmission to maintain data privacy as well as optimizing the energy of medical data transmission. Data security is a very important factor for a successful WES
since users are quite skeptical when their privacy is not assured and therefore they are less tempted to wear the device if they don't feel comfortable about their personal medical data.
The EcoWES innovative wearable electronic sensor is integrated into specified places of a stretch textile of dress which can comfortably be used by elderly people, athletes and people with chronic health issues.
The product of EcoWES is equipped with smart supervision application software that automatically supervises the vital signs of the person. In the occurrence of an issue that is detected based on irregular patterns in the data of vital signs and has been trained to the AI-based application, immediately, an alarm message will be sent to the predefined physician which includes a short report of the abnormality issue and the current situation of the person under supervision. If no reply is received from the physician, a second alarm message will be sent. If the main supervision center of EcoWES doesn't receive any reply from the practitioner in a specified time, the supervision system will automatically contact the emergency physician and a message according to the health condition and location information of the patient will be issued. Simultaneously, the EcoWES
monitoring system Date Recue/Date Received 2022-1 2-1 3 sends a message to the specified persons such as family members and Personal Support Worker (PSW) to react faster about the issue. Therefore, the developed supervision system works as a smart health center in which its supervision is distributed in the living locations of the under-covered consumers and controls the situations.
The smart WES of EcoWES has the following competitive advantages over the existing wearable sensors in the market.
- Measure the most important parameters of vital signs including heart rate, respiration rhythm, body temperature, and physical shock due to possible fall down - High security of medical data using Blockchain technology - Observance of social and ethical factors - Very low energy consumption - No battery required by automatic harvest energy including body temperature and movement - Al-based supervision center for controlling the distributed care of personal health - Non-invasiveness - Affordable - Washable - Viable Different parts of the project novelties:
- Producing multi-material fiber for sensing vital signs with conductive polymer-clad silica nanofiber - Utilizing microelectromechanical technology to generate energy and shock sensing - Digital signal processing algorithms to recognize abnormal health events - High-security coding technology to transmit medical data through Near Field Communication (NFC) Date Recue/Date Received 2022-1 2-1 3
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