Publications related to Development and Evaluation of Multi-Lead Wavelet-Based ECG Delineation Algorithms for Embedded Wireless Sensor Nodes

Federated learning with uncertainty-based client clustering for fleet-wide fault diagnosis

Operators from various industries have been pushing the adoption of wireless sensing nodes for industrial monitoring, and such efforts have produced sizeable condition monitoring datasets that can be used to build diagnosis algorithms capable of warning ma ...

2024

Self-powered transformer intelligent wireless temperature monitoring system based on an ultra-low acceleration piezoelectric vibration energy harvester

Xin Chen

The wireless sensor nodes used for monitoring the condition of grid equipment always be powered by disposable batteries. However, it introduces disadvantages, such as inconvenient replacement, short lifespan, and envi-ronmental pollution, significantly imp ...

Elsevier2023

Finding information-rich electrocardiographic biomarkers to characterize atrial fibrillation

Anna Mary Mc Cann

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia; it will affect one in four adults worldwide in their lifetime. AF has serious consequences, including drastically increased risk of stroke. Catheter ablation surgery is an established treatmen ...

EPFL2023

Single-arm diagnostic electrocardiography with printed graphene on wearable textiles

Ata Jedari Golparvar

Stimulated by the COVID-19 outbreak, the global healthcare industry better acknowledges the necessity of innovating novel methods for remote healthcare monitoring and treating patients outside clinics. Here we report the development of two different types ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Assessing real-world gait with digital technology? Validation, insights and recommendations from the Mobilise-D consortium

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Abolfazl Soltani, Francesca Salis

Background: Although digital mobility outcomes (DMOs) can be readily calculated from real-world data collected with wearable devices and ad-hoc algorithms, technical validation is still required. The aim of this paper is to comparatively assess and validat ...

BioMed Central2023

Strategies, Techniques and Systems for powering low-maintenance and battery-free devices through Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer

Roberto La Rosa

The purpose of this research has a background in the market for Internet of Things (IoT)devices and wireless sensor networks. The Market Forecast predicts the connection of a trillion"things" by 2025. The global smart sensor market size trend grows from US ...

EPFL2022

Putting Temperature into the Equation: Development and Validation of Algorithms to Distinguish Non-Wearing from Inactivity and Sleep in Wearable Sensors

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Sara Pagnamenta

Long-term monitoring of real-life physical activity (PA) using wearable devices is increasingly used in clinical and epidemiological studies. The quality of the recorded data is an important issue, as unreliable data may negatively affect the outcome measu ...

MDPI2022

Hardware-oriented pruning and quantization of Deep Learning models to detect life-threatening arrhythmias

Alexandre Schmid, Lizeth Gonzalez Carabarin

Wearable solutions based on Deep Learning (DL) for real-time ECG monitoring are a promising alternative to detect life-threatening arrhythmias. However, DL models suffer of a large memory footprint, which hampers their adoption in portable technologies. Th ...

IEEE2021

An Energy-Autonomous Wireless Sensor With Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Ambient Light Sensing

Catherine Dehollain, Andreas Peter Burg, Roberto La Rosa

Wireless sensor nodes (WSNs) are generally powered by batteries, which results in a substantial limitation to the places where the nodes can be installed, to the maximum number of deployable devices, and to the node lifetime. To meet the demand for Interne ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

System-level Design of Adaptive Wearable Sensors for Health and Wellness Monitoring

Elisabetta De Giovanni

In recent years, population aging and the consequent higher incidence of noncommunicable diseases, have increased the need for long-term health monitoring. Moreover, as healthcare cost is projected to grow substantially by 2030 in OECD countries, the deman ...

EPFL2021

Body Dust: Well Beyond Wearable and Implantable Sensors

Sandro Carrara

Over the last 20 years, the field of Smart Dust has been proposed and demonstrated. Almost in the same period, implantable and wearable sensors for human monitoring have been actually successfully introduced in the market. The present research about Smart ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Propagation-Loss Characterization for Livestock Implantables at (433,868,1400) MHz

Denys Nikolayev

Automated systems based on wearable sensors for livestock monitoring are becoming increasingly popular. Specifically, wireless in-body sensors could yield relevant data, such as ruminal temperature. The collection of such data requires an accurate characte ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Speed detection of battery-free nodes based on RF Wireless Power Transfer

Catherine Dehollain, Roberto La Rosa

In the Internet of Things (IoT) era, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are rapidly increasing in terms of relevance and pervasiveness thanks to their notable real-time monitoring performance across several fields, including industrial, domestic, military, bi ...

IEEE2020

Monitoring of Cardiovascular and Neurological Diseases Using Wearable Devices

Dionisije Sopic

In this thesis, I focus on monitoring of patients suffering from cardiovascular and neurological diseases through the use of wearable devices. The main diseases considered in this thesis are atrial fibrillation (AF), myocardial infarction (MI), and epileps ...

EPFL2020

Advanced Techniques for Powering Wireless Sensor Nodes through Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer

Roberto La Rosa

This paper presents three different techniques for efficiently powering an energy-autonomous wireless sensor (EAWS) through both energy harvesting (EH) and RF wireless power transfer (WPT). The aim of the paper is to provide effective strategies and techni ...

IEEE2020

Automatic 12-lead ECG Classification Using a Convolutional Network Ensemble

Manoel Horta Ribeiro

The 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is a major diagnostic test for cardiovascular diseases and enhanced automated analysis tools might lead to more reliable diagnosis and improved clinical practice. Deep neural networks are models composed of stacked trans ...

IEEE2020

Modular Design and Optimization of Biomedical Applications for Ultra-Low Power Heterogeneous Platforms

David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Benoît Walter Denkinger, Elisabetta De Giovanni, Miguel Peon Quiros, Fabio Montagna, Simone Machetti

In the last years, remote health monitoring is becoming an essential branch of health care with the rapid development of wearable sensors technology. To meet the demand of new more complex applications and ensuring adequate battery lifetime, wearable senso ...

2020

Advanced Monitoring Systems Based on Battery-Less Asset Tracking Modules Energized through RF Wireless Power Transfer

Catherine Dehollain, Roberto La Rosa

Asset tracking involving accurate location and transportation data is highly suited to wireless sensor networks (WSNs) featuring battery-less nodes that can be deployed in virtually any environment and require little or no maintenance. In response to the g ...

2020

Wearable and Self-Aware Machine Learning System for Online Cognitive Workload Monitoring and Drone Control

Fabio Isidoro Tiberio Dell'Agnola

The use of robots in search and rescue is gaining particular interest, but singular skills are required to ensure efficient deployments in real missions. To face this problem, there is a need to develop more intuitive control interfaces. Moreover, to ensur ...

EPFL2020

Real-Time Personalized Atrial Fibrillation Prediction on Multi-Core Wearable Sensors

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Adriana Arza Valdes, Elisabetta De Giovanni, Miguel Peon Quiros

In the recent Internet-of-Things (IoT) era where biomedical applications require continuous monitoring of relevant data, edge computing keeps gaining more and more importance. These new architectures for edge computing include multi-core and parallel compu ...

2021