3D-printed on-skin electrodes

Assistant Professor Nazek Elatab 

The team will provide 3D-printed permeable skin patches with miniaturized octopus-like suckers and embedded microchannels for enhanced mechanical strength, breathability, and biosignal monitoring. The patch will collect Matteo's electrophysiological signal, specifically the ECG signal. The developed device showcases a rapid, cost-effective fabrication process of porous skin patches and the printing process of ink metal-based materials that expands its applications to low-resource settings and environments. 

Fitness monitoring

Professor Khaled Salama 

The team will provide an easy-to-use flexible platform that provides real-time insights about the user's body conditions during physical activity. This fitness monitoring device uses a highly efficient algorithm to acquire, translate, and process biosensor responses embedded in the platform. The sensing segment of their device is composed of an inertial sensor, a strain sensor, and three electrochemical sensors using laser-scribed graphene (LSG) technology to measure the loss of important electrolytes (potassium and sodium), the sweat rate, the respiration rate, and movement intensity.

Solar-powered smart helmet for health monitoring, emergency response, and with GPS and UAV positioning

Professor Atif Shamim 

The team will provide two technologies. The first is a smart helmet, which incorporates a range of sensors for monitoring vital signs and safety features for the riders and athletes. The smart helmet monitors the wearer's blood oxygen, heart rate, and body temperature and automatically raises alerts in an emergency. The helmet can also detect falls and can thus raise an alert in case the person falls accidentally or due to a medical condition. The helmet also has a GPS module that can provide real-time location and a custom Bluetooth low energy and UAV-based positioning mechanism for rescue situations. Small distributed solar cells with near-transparent printed antennas will power the smart helmet.

Fully Printed wireless electrocardiography (ECG)

Professor Atif Shamim 

The second wearable is a pair of innovative fully screen-printed ECG electrodes connected with a single lead ECG wireless readout. A unique feature of our electrodes is that all elements of the ECG electrode have been screen-printed through a custom protocol and only require ~265 times less metal for the conductive part and ~176 times less ECG electrode gel than the standard commercial ECG electrodes. The electrodes are integrated with a custom miniaturized wireless readout device with an antenna optimized for human body wearability. Despite the small size, this can provide almost 10 times more range than a commercial antenna that is similar in size.

Internet of Things (IoT)

Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The team will provide a robust Internet of Things to satellites and delay-tolerant networking for transferring biosensor data, videos, photos, and localization in real time. The technologies that will be deployed are a combination of innovative hardware and software for robustly and reliably communicating a broad spectrum of data types in different conditions.

Internet of Bodies (IoB)

Professor Ahmed Eltawil 

The team will provide a network of on-body sensor nodes that communicate at ultra-low power to seamlessly monitor Matteo's vital signs. Human-body communication utilizes the body as a communication medium instead of Radio Frequency, thus using a fraction of the size and power of state-of-the-art smart nodes. This technology results in highly secure and ultra-efficient communications. It will monitor his heart rate and have a sensor/transmitter on his wrist and a receiver on his arm or leg.