Principal Investigator Richard Fletcher
Wearable technologies are changing the way we think about healthcare and enabling lower cost personal preventative health. Future wearable sensors will never need batteries or maintenance and can be comfortabely worn as clothing or jewelry. Despite numerous commercial products, most are not appropriate for clinical research and contain little intelligence.
Research in wearable sensors is interdisciplinary and includes wireless communications, ultra-lower power circuit design, as well as knowledge of clinicla physiology, biology and chemistry. Wearable sensors measure not only physiology (heart rate, skin conductance, etc.) but also include information about environment parameters (air quality, sound/light levels) which affect our health.
In addition to sensors, our electronics modules contain low-power radio which stream data to the cloud. This enable us to perform longitudinal data analysis on a remote server, which important for clinical studies and outpatient care betwen doctor's visits.