Activity recognition with a wearable accelerometer is a common investigated research topic and enables the detection of basic activities like sitting, walking or standing. Recent work in this area adds different sensing modalities to the inertial data to collect more information of the user’s environment to boost activity recognition for more challenging activities. This work presents a sensor ...

This paper describes an innovative sensor system which can detect and track people in a room by means of an array of capacitive sensors beneath the floor covering. By combining cutting-edge technology from the domains of capacitive sensing, wireless data transmission, interconnecting technology between textiles and microelectronics and high level data processing it is possible to support variou...

A sensor was tested subdural and in vitro, simulating a supine infant with a ventricular-peritoneal shunt and controlled occlusions. The variable MEMS capacitive device is able to detect and forecast blockages, similar to early detection procedures in cancer patients. For example, with gradual occlusion development over a year, the method forecasts a danger over one month ahead of blockage. The...

Air embolism can be a potentially fatal complication of surgical procedures when air or sub-atmospheric is introduced under pressure into a body cavity. For the diagnosis and the treatment of air embolism quickly and efficiently, we have developed the air detector using microstructure capacitive sensor. The sensor consists of micro-channel on Pyrex 7740 glass with upper and lower electrodes whi...

For what is believed to be for the first time, the dynamic study of wireless intracranial pressure measurements in a swine model of traumatic brain injury is described. This achieves an extremely important milestone, since the measurements demonstrate the system’s robustness, and the feasibility of acquiring wireless readings of the intracranial pressure resulting from non-impact rotational hea...