Wearable Smart Sensing platform for environmental and health monitoring: the Convergence project

Elise Saoutieff (1) , Tiziana Polichetti (2) , Laurent Jouanet (1) , Adrien Faucon (1) , Audrey Vidal (1) , Alexandre Pereira (3) , Sébastien Boisseau (1) , Thomas Ernst (1) , Maria Lucia Miglietta (2) , Brigida Alfano (2) , Ettore Massera (2) , Saverio de Vito (2) , Do Hanh Ngan Bui (4) , Philippe Benech (4) , Tan-Phu Vuong (4) , Carmen Moldovan (5) , Yann Danlee (6) , Thomas Walewyns (6) , Sylvain Petre (6) , Denis Flandre (6) , Armands Ancans (7) , Modris Greitans (7) , Adrian M. Ionescu (8)

1 DSYS - Département Systèmes
2 ENEA C.R. Portici, Department for Sustainability, Portici, 00196 Naples, Italy
3 LITEN - Laboratoire d'Innovation pour les Technologies des Energies Nouvelles et les nanomatériaux
4 IMEP-LAHC - Institut de Microélectronique, Electromagnétisme et Photonique - Laboratoire d'Hyperfréquences et Caractérisation
5 IMT-Bucharest - National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnologies
6 ICTEAM - Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics
7 Institute of Electronics and Computer Science
8 EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

The low-power sensing platform proposed by the Convergence project is foreseen as a wireless, low-power and multifunctional wearable system empowered by energy-efficient technologies. This will allow meeting the strict demands of life-style and healthcare applications in terms of autonomy for quasi-continuous collection of data for early-detection strategies. The system is compatible with different kinds of sensors, able to monitor not only health indicators of individual person (physical activity, core body temperature and biomarkers) but also the environment with chemical composition of the ambient air (NOx, COx, NHx particles) returning meaningful information on his/her exposure to dangerous (safety) or pollutant agents. In this article, we introduce the specifications and the design of the low-power sensing platform and the different sensors developed in the project, with a particular focus on pollutant sensing capabilities and specifically on NO2 sensor based on graphene and CO sensor based on polyaniline ink.

Keywords: wearable electronics; low-power consumption; integration; environment monitoring; health monitoring; NOx sensor; CO sensor; autonomous sensing platform; Internet of Things (IoT)

Domains: Environmental Sciences; Environmental and Society; Engineering Sciences [physics]; Electronics; Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Chemical Physics [physics.chem-ph]

Elise Saoutieff, Tiziana Polichetti, Laurent Jouanet, Adrien Faucon, Audrey Vidal, et al.. Wearable Smart Sensing platform for environmental and health monitoring: the Convergence project. ACS Sensors, 2021, 21 (5), pp.1802. ⟨10.3390/s21051802⟩. ⟨cea-03582663⟩