(麻豆淫院Org.com) -- Imagine being able to adjust your home furnace, check whether your arteries are plugging up and pinpoint the location of your child, all with a tap of the same quarter-sized brooch.
That鈥檚 becoming doable with next-generation wireless sensor technology developed by SFU engineering professor Bozena Kaminska and CiBER (Centre for Integrative Bio-Engineering Research). Kaminska, a Canada Research Chair in Wireless Sensor Networks, founded the SFU-based, mixed-technology, electronics developer.
CiBER鈥檚 work first made international news three years ago when it unveiled a wearable wireless cardiac monitoring and diagnostic sensor. The miniature device is embedded in a polymer-based Band Aid worn on the chest.
鈥淪ince then, we have further honed our miniature sensors for secure document storage and transmission,鈥� says Kaminska.
鈥淭hey can be used to track and detect the identity of objects and people. At the National Research Council (NRC) in Ottawa, we鈥檙e incorporating this ability into sensor-based wireless applications to create smart homes and save energy.鈥�
Not only do these sensors have highly sophisticated health, athletic, security and energy monitoring applications, they can also communicate with each other through a CiBER-created solar-powered, wireless, mesh network connected to the Internet.
Through a project led by Marcin Marzencki, a post-doctoral fellow in Kaminska鈥檚 lab, CiBER has successfully tested several of its network installations in the Okanagan and at the NRC.
The Fraser Health Burnaby Hospital and other health care facilities are clinically testing CiBER鈥檚 sensors and networking capabilities for medical purposes and evaluating them for athletic and fitness applications.
鈥淥ther research groups are using our technology as a platform to build their work on,鈥� says Kaminska, 鈥渁nd that鈥檚 largely thanks to CMC Microsystems.鈥�
The Queens University-based, non-profit microelectronics fabricator and distributor helps university researchers, nationally, commercialize their inventions.
Provided by Simon Fraser University
