Perspective (Sensing, perceiving, learning, reasoning … in one chip)

It is now clear that biomedical devices that are ingestible, implantable, prosthetic and generally insertable into the human body promise immense potential.

The most direct impact of the TARA project is the development of a multi-sensor microelectronic platform that autonomously can process the same acquired data with advanced medical diagnostic algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence learning, perceiving and reasoning methods, all in a single 1.5x1.5mm chip.

The SENSIPLUS chip is complemented by micromechanical, electrophysiological, optical and electrochemical sensors to enable the development of micro-miniaturized medical devices for in-vivo monitoring of biophysical and biochemical parameters. Such devices ideally will enable a closed loop of real-time medical intervention and therapy, in line with the new era of Healthcare 5.0, which includes intelligent disease detection and control, virtual care, intelligent healthcare management, remote and intelligent monitoring, and intervention decision support.

Implantable sensors can provide relevant data of human body parts, internal nerves, muscles, organs, such as the gastro-intestinal system (temperature, pH, pressure), blood glucose level, pressure level, ECG readings.

Although not implantable, the new field of “smart dust” and “body and neural dust” is emerging, for high detail and resolution monitoring of internal and nearby organs. “Body dusts” make use of millimeter-sized sensitive nodes that can be inserted into various parts of the human body for detailed and localized diagnostics.

This wearable smart patch is part of a kit designed to facilitate the experimentation and accelerate the development of artificial intelligence-based health diagnostic devices, from wrist watches, clothing, bracelets, neckless, VR helmets to miniature smart rings.

The sensor patch makes available an extensive set of physiological measurements and it is complemented by an SDK and the SLM-Studio multi-sensors data logging and AI framework, running on most PCs. All measurements are performed by a single SENSIPLUS analog front-end chip which assures coordinated and timed data acquisition for sensor fusion.

The 16 electrodes matrix allow to intermix bio-impedance, bio-potential and electrochemical measurements in support of low resolution imaging.

Multiple patches can be daisy chained and operated concurrently to enable large area body measurements.

For more information see: https://sensichips.com/design-kit/wearables-kit/