AKTU Wearable Devices and Its Applications (HTST801) Syllabus PDF – B.Tech Honors Degree in Sensor and Transducer Technology

Course Objectives

1. Identify the need for development of wearable devices and its implications on various sectors.
2. Comprehend the design and development of various wearable inertial sensors and wearable bio-electrode and physiological activity monitoring devices for use in healthcare applications.
3. Discuss the usage of various biochemical and gas sensors as wearable devices.
4. Acquaint various wearable locomotive sensors as assistive devices for tracking and navigation

Course Outcomes

1. Identify and understand the need for development of wearable devices and its influence on various sectors.
2. Discus the applications of various wearable inertial sensors for biomedical applications.
3. Comprehend the design and development of various wearable bio-electrode and physiological activity monitoring devices for use in healthcare applications.
4. Discuss and analyze the usage of various biochemical and gas sensors as wearable devices.
5. Identify the use of various wearable locomotive tools for safety and security, navigation.

Course Content

UNIT-I INTRODUCTION TO WEARABLE DEVICES

Motivation for development of Wearable Devices, The emergence of wearable computing andwearable electronics, Types of wearable sensors:Invasive, Non-invasive;Intelligent clothing, Industry sectors’ overview- sports, healthcare, Fashion and entertainment, military, environment monitoring, mining industry, public sector and safety.

UNIT-II WEARABLE INERTIAL SENSORS

Wearable Inertial Sensors - Accelerometers, Gyroscopic sensors and Magnetic sensors; Modality of Measurement- Wearable Sensors, Invisible Sensors,In-Shoe Force and Pressure Measurement;Applications: Fall Risk Assessment, Fall Detection , Gait Analysis, Quantitative Evaluation of Hemiplegic and Parkinson’s Diseasepatients.Physical Activity monitoring: Human Kinetics, Cardiac Activity, Energy Expenditure measurement: Pedometers, Actigraphs.

UNIT-III WEARABLE BIOCHEMICAL AND GAS SENSORS

Wearable Biochemical Sensors: Parameters of interest, System Design –Textile based, Microneedle based; Types: Noninvasive Glucose Monitoring Devices, GlucoWatch® G2 Biographer, GlucoTrackTM; Pulse oximeter, Portable Pulse Oximeters, wearable pulse oximeter;

Wearable capnometer for monitoring of expired carbon dioxide. Wearable gas sensors: Metal Oxide (MOS) type,electrochemicaltype, new materials-CNTs, graphene,Zeolites;Detection of atmospheric pollutants.

UNIT-IV WEARABLE CAMERAS AND MICROPHONES FOR NAVIGATION

Cameras in wearable devices, Applications in safety and security, navigation, Enhancing sportsmedia, Automatic digital diary. Cameras in smart-watches; Use of Wearable Microphones:

MEMS microphones, Bioacoustics, Microphones and AI for respiratory diagnostics and clinical trials.Wearable Assistive Devices for the Blind - Hearing and Touch sensation, Assistive Devices for Fingers and Hands, Assistive Devices for wrist,forarmandfeet, vests and belts, head-mounted devices.

UNIT-V OTHER WEARABLE DEVICES

Wearable devices with Global Positioning System (GPS) integration for tracking and navigation.Wearable Optical Sensors -chemical sensors, optical glucose sensors, UV exposure indicators, speech recognition using lasers; Photoplethysmography (PPG), 3D imaging and motion capture.

Text Books

1. Wearable Sensors -Fundamentals, Implementation and Applications by Edward Sazonov and Michael R. Neuman, Elsevier Inc., 2014.
2. Wearable and Autonomous Biomedical Devices and Systems for Smart Environment by Aimé Lay-Ekuakille and Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay, Springer 2010

Reference Books

1. Wearable Electronics Sensors - For Safe and Healthy Living”, Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay, Springer 2015, ECE(BSW).
2. Environmental, Chemical and Medical Sensors”, by Shantanu Bhattacharya, A K Agarwal, NripenChanda, Ashok Pandey and Ashis Kumar Sen, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018 .
3. M. Mardonova and Y. Choi, "Review of Wearable Device Technology and Its Applications to the Mining Industry," Energies, vol. 11, p. 547, 2018.
4. N. Luo, W. Dai, C. Li, Z. Zhou, L. Lu, C. C. Y. Poon, et al., "Flexible Piezoresistive Sensor Patch Enabling Ultralow Power Cuffless Blood Pressure Measurement," AdvancedFunctional Materials, vol. 26, pp. 1178-1187, 2016.
5. S. Yang, Y.-C. Chen, L. Nicolini, P. Pasupathy, J. Sacks, B. Su, et al., “Cut-and-Paste” Manufacture of Multiparametric Epidermal Sensor Systems," Advanced Materials, vol. 27,pp. 6423-6430, 2015. Note: Internal assessment may have Design and development of small wearable sensor as a mini projects.