Health IoT: Ingestible Sensor Can help Diagnose Disease

By combining engineered biological sensors together with low-power wireless electronics, we can detect biological signals in the body and in near real-time, enabling new diagnostic capabilities for human health applications.

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Wearable medical devices are electronic in nature and are equipped with sensors that help in monitoring as well as keeping track of a patient’s health. Some of the uses of these devices include, activity tracking, infant monitoring and vital signs monitoring among others. Wearable devices help a patient to have access to his own health records while performing the daily routine activities or tasks.

Key factors driving the demand for medical sensors are increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, rising geriatric population and rising awareness regarding importance of fitness.

A Biochip is a collection of microarrays (micro-test sites), that is arranged on a solid substrate. A biochip is also known as genetic chip that allows the multiple diagnostic or clinical tests at the same time to be performed. This chip can performs a thousands in number of biochemical reactions in few seconds. The biochips are used for various purposes such as DNA analysis, oxygen detection, pH detection and genetic decoders among others.

The increasing penetration of IoT, connected devices and consumer electronics to have a noteworthy impact on the healthcare world. The advent of IoT has enabled each device to be connected over the internet and the rising adoptions globally would result in more than billions of devices connected over the internet. Also, huge populations of India and China are further proliferating the growing penetration of smart phones.