Wearables

Intelligent Sensors on Our Bodies

The advancing miniaturisation in the area of sensors and analysis units is creating new opportunities for self-monitoring and diagnosis. More and more health insurance companies are encouraging voluntary self-monitoring in an effort to raise people's health awareness. This why the number of fitness trackers on offer is exploding. But the use of wearables is not limited to sports, these are now also being adopted for the interaction between humans and machines (e.g. data glasses). The limits are also becoming increasingly blurred in the area of medicine. Non-critical health monitoring systems are becoming more and more similar to wearables.

In addition to the required miniaturisation, all these systems put a focus on the following requirements:

• Efficient battery management
• Sensors
• A low-consumption display unit
• Communication interfaces