We are making extensive research on new
layouts of lightweight RFID antennas over
textile or flexible substrates suitable to be
attached onto the human body by means of
plaster, cards or embedded into garments.
Wearable tags are designed to optimize the
energy scavenging and to provide read range
compatible with in-room tracking. Slotted
patch configurations enable the integration of
motion sensors for the detection of weak body
movements such as breath, cough, fall, but
also periodic limb movements during the night
or the first appearance of human stress.
The cutting edge of the research is the design
of implantable RFID tags able to sense the
evolution of some interior pathology such as
the restenosis of an artery due to plaque
formation and the arising of edemas. We have
developed the first prototype of STENTag e.g.
an augmented version of a carotid stent that
has been equipped by RFID microchips and hence
transformed into a plaque sensor, a data
memory stick and finally into a communication
device.
This research line is expected to produce one
of the key technologies to enable the personal
E-Health of tomorrow, wherein the person,
through his own smartphone, will become the
primary hub of data collection about his own
body.
S. Manzari,
C, Occhiuzzi, G. Marrocco, « Feasibility of
Body-centric Systems by Using passive textile
RFID tags », IEEE Antennas and
Propagation Magazine, accepted August 2012, in
press
Body-centric RFID
systems
S Manzari, C Occhiuzzi, G
Marrocco
Proceedings of the 4th
International Symposium on Applied Sciences in
...
Passive RFID
Strain-Sensor based on Meander-Line Antennas
C Occhiuzzi, C Paggi, G
Marrocco
Antennas and Propagation,
IEEE Transactions on, 1-1
Modeling, design and
experimentation of wearable RFID sensor tag
C Occhiuzzi, S Cippitelli,
G Marrocco
Antennas and Propagation,
IEEE Transactions on 58 (8), 2490-2498
Experimental
characterization of the RFID STENTag for passive
vascular monitoring
C Occhiuzzi, G Marrocco
Antennas and Propagation
(EUCAP), 2012 6th European Conference on,
3669-3671
DEVICE IMPLANTABLE
IN BIOLOGICAL DUCTS
G MARROCCO, C OCCHIUZZI
WO Patent WO/2011/121,581
Human body sensing:
a pervasive approach by implanted RFID tags
G MARROCCO
3rd International symposium
on applied sciences in biomedical and ...
Sensing the human
body by implanted RFID tags
G MARROCCO
European conference on
antennas and propagation EUCAP-2010, 1-5
The RFID technology
for neurosciences: feasibility of limbs'
monitoring in sleep diseases
C Occhiuzzi, G Marrocco
Information Technology in
Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on 14 (1), 37-43
RFID antennas for
the UHF remote monitoring of human subjects
G Marrocco
Antennas and Propagation,
IEEE Transactions on 55 (6), 1862-1870
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