Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.
STMicroelectronics Agrate, 20864 Agrate Brianza, Italy.
Sensors (Basel). 2024 Feb 28;24(5):1554. doi: 10.3390/s24051554.
We propose a new methodology for long-term biopotential recording based on an MEMS multisensor integrated platform featuring a commercial electrostatic charge-transfer sensor. This family of sensors was originally intended for presence tracking in the automotive industry, so the existing setup was engineered for the acquisition of electrocardiograms, electroencephalograms, electrooculograms, and electromyography, designing a dedicated front-end and writing proper firmware for the specific application. Systematic tests on controls and nocturnal acquisitions from patients in a domestic environment will be discussed in detail. The excellent results indicate that this technology can provide a low-power, unexplored solution to biopotential acquisition. The technological breakthrough is in that it enables adding this type of functionality to existing MEMS boards at near-zero additional power consumption. For these reasons, it opens up additional possibilities for wearable sensors and strengthens the role of MEMS technology in medical wearables for the long-term synchronous acquisition of a wide range of signals.
我们提出了一种新的基于 MEMS 多传感器集成平台的长期生物电位记录方法,该平台具有商用静电电荷转移传感器。该系列传感器最初用于汽车行业的存在跟踪,因此现有的设置是为获取心电图、脑电图、眼电图和肌电图而设计的,为特定应用设计了专用的前端,并编写了适当的固件。我们将详细讨论对对照和夜间在国内环境中采集的患者的系统测试。优异的结果表明,这项技术可以为生物电位采集提供低功耗、未开发的解决方案。技术突破在于它能够以接近零的额外功耗将这种功能添加到现有的 MEMS 板中。基于这些原因,它为可穿戴传感器开辟了更多的可能性,并加强了 MEMS 技术在医疗可穿戴设备中的作用,可用于长期同步采集各种信号。