A digital nervous system aiming toward personalized IoT healthcareShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Scientific Reports, E-ISSN 2045-2322, Vol. 11, no 1, article id 7757
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Abstract [en]
Body area networks (BANs), cloud computing, and machine learning are platforms that can potentially enable advanced healthcare outside the hospital. By applying distributed sensors and drug delivery devices on/in our body and connecting to such communication and decision-making technology, a system for remote diagnostics and therapy is achieved with additional autoregulation capabilities. Challenges with such autarchic on-body healthcare schemes relate to integrity and safety, and interfacing and transduction of electronic signals into biochemical signals, and vice versa. Here, we report a BAN, comprising flexible on-body organic bioelectronic sensors and actuators utilizing two parallel pathways for communication and decision-making. Data, recorded from strain sensors detecting body motion, are both securely transferred to the cloud for machine learning and improved decision-making, and sent through the body using a secure body-coupled communication protocol to auto-actuate delivery of neurotransmitters, all within seconds. We conclude that both highly stable and accurate sensing-from multiple sensors-are needed to enable robust decision making and limit the frequency of retraining. The holistic platform resembles the self-regulatory properties of the nervous system, i.e., the ability to sense, communicate, decide, and react accordingly, thus operating as a digital nervous system.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
NATURE RESEARCH , 2021. Vol. 11, no 1, article id 7757
National Category
Computer Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-296428DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-87177-zISI: 000639562100077PubMedID: 33833303Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85104084403OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-296428DiVA, id: diva2:1566006
Note
QC 20210614
2021-06-142021-06-142022-09-15Bibliographically approved