A Wireless Sensor Microsystem for Monitoring the Effects of Vitamins on Aging

模拟-数字集成电路设计中心（CDADIC）提案#1127853本提案旨在为华盛顿州立大学（牵头）的模拟-数字集成电路设计中心（CDADIC）在俄勒冈州州立大学场地执行的工作寻求资金。基础研究的资金申请由NSF批准的招标（NSF 10-601）授权。 征集邀请I/UCRC提交支持行业定义的基础研究的提案。 开发可穿戴电子设备以有效地监测人体活动和生理信号正在成为集成电路和系统设计的重要领域。可穿戴电子产品对设计师提出了独特的挑战，这与传统电子环境不同，包括重量轻、功耗低和混合信号设计，通常需要与人体进行电气和/或化学接触。的皮肤和无线连接到远程监控基础设施。 拟议的研究工作将设计和演示一种可穿戴传感器，用于老年受试者，能够监测日常活动模式和生命体征。该研究旨在提高专用模数转换，无线发射器和可穿戴计算的数字计算的能源效率，并探索用于提取诊断相关签名的数据挖掘方法。随着美国人口的老龄化，拟议的工作有可能对老年人的护理产生广泛的影响，并使他们能够在自己的家庭环境中停留更长的时间，从而增加他们的积极成果并降低他们的护理成本。 该项目得到了ADI公司和英特尔公司的大力支持，这两家公司都是该中心的成员。 更广泛地说，这项工作有可能扩大该中心的研究组合作为一个整体进入可穿戴电子领域，从而影响该中心？整个工业部门。 PI还成立了一家公司，帮助将这一领域的工作商业化。该提案列出了通过高级项目让本科生参与工作的具体计划。

Center for Design of Analog-Digital Integrated Circuits (CDADIC) Proposal #1127853This proposal seeks funding for the Center for Design of Analog-Digital Integrated Circuits (CDADIC) at Washington State University (lead) for work executed at its Oregon State University site. Funding Requests for Fundamental Research are authorized by an NSF approved solicitation, NSF 10-601. The solicitation invites I/UCRCs to submit proposals for support of industry-defined fundamental research. Development of wearable electronics to effectively monitor human activity and physiological signals is emerging as an important area for integrated circuit and system design. Wearable electronics pose distinct challenges to the designer unlike those of traditional electronics environments including light weight, low power, and mixed-signal design often requiring electrical and/or chemical contact with the human subject?s skin and unteathered wireless connection to remote monitoring infrastructure. The proposed research effort will design and demonstrate a wearable sensor for elderly subjects capable of monitoring daily activity patterns and vital signs. The research aims to improve the energy efficiency of specialized analog-digital conversion, wireless transmitters, and digital computing for wearable computing as well as explore data mining approaches for the extraction of diagnostically relevant signatures. With the aging of the US population, the proposed work has the potential for wide impact in the care of the elderly and their ability to stay longer in their own home environment, thus increasing their positive outcomes and reducing their cost of care. The proposed project has strong support from Analog Devices and Intel, both members of the Center. More broadly, the work has the potential to expand the research portfolio of the center as a whole into the area of wearable electronics, thus impacting the center?s entire industry sector. The PIs have also founded a company to help commercialize work in this area. The proposal lays out concrete plans for involving undergraduates in the work via senior projects.