poster session at BSN 2012
The Hamlyn Centre hosted the latest gathering of researchers and industry professional to explore the latest trends and technologies in Body Sensor Networks
Over a period of three-days delegates at Body Sensor Network 2012 heard from a range of distinguished speakers from academia and industry. Conference sessions included energy transfer and harvesting, biosensor design, and interfacing between human and computer interactions.
It was announced at the conference that Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) and the Hamlyn Centre at Imperial College London will work together to jointly develop a new ultra low power BSN sensing platform for the Elite Sports Performance in Training (ESPRIT) Programme.
The new joint project will integrate the College’s analogue intelligent processing front end software and ASTRI’s low power, high resolution hardware into a mixed-signal platform. This new platform could enable ultra-low power on-node processing, and which will lead to further miniaturisation of wearable and implantable sensors and prolong their battery life.
Dr. Benny Lo, from the Hamlyn Centre at Imperial College London said, “Tiny, implantable body sensors could quite literally revolutionize the way we monitor the health and wellbeing of those living with chronic health conditions. Through more effective, unobtrusive monitoring of vital signs, it could lead to more responsive, personalized treatments and a better quality of life for patients.
That is why it is so important to collaborate with our partners at ASTRI. Together, we will be able to make improvements to the underpinning technology behind these sensors, which could mean that they could be implemented in healthcare in the near future.”
The ESPRIT project is a five-year collaborative research consortium that is funded by EPSRC and led by Imperial. The aim of the programme is for researchers to work with elite athletes and develop new sensor technologies that can help them to improve their training and performance. The long term plan is to use these sensors and the knowledge gathered during the project to improve healthcare in the UK.
Read about the ESPRIT programme
Read more about the partnership with ASTRI
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