Design and Test Infrastructure For The Low Cost Manufacture of Print Electronics On Flexible Substrates

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The need for low-cost health care requires patients to play an active role in their own health care outside traditional hospitals and other government-run institutions using personalized health management systems. Such management systems will be built on low-cost, ultra-low-power consumer devices such as laptops, smart tablets and phones, together with low-cost wearable sensor technologies. The smart devices provide a portable monitoring system with significant processing capability with wireless connections to world-wide-web cloud services. As the number of smart devices sold in the past decade is in excess of 2/5th of the entire world’s population, the bottleneck to a low-cost health network for all lies between the smart device and the individual person. It is therefore our intention with this research aim to focus on the “last decimeter” between the individual and the smart device using low-cost electronics and MEMS technologies.