Emerging applications for sensors in defense, energy, environmental and industrial markets have experienced significant market growth over the last 10 years. This conference track will examine these emerging sensor markets and will showcase the latest technological advancements in materials, design, modeling, engineering and manufacturing.
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Wednesday, December 6
8:00 am Roundtable Discussions with Continental Breakfast
Participants choose a specific breakout discussion group to join. Each group has a moderator to ensure focused discussions around key issues within the topic. This format allows participants to meet potential collaborators, share examples from their work, vet ideas with peers, and be part of a group problem-solving endeavor. The discussions provide an informal exchange of ideas and are not meant to be a corporate or specific product discussion.
TABLE 1: Bridging the Divide: Transitioning Wearable and Implantable Biosensors to Clinical Applications
Moderator: Joshua Windmiller, Ph.D., CTO & Founder, Biolinq Technologies, Inc.
- Why is there a lack of clinical-grade wearable or implantable biosensor products, despite the proliferation of innovations in the biosensors domain?
- What are the key challenges that need to be overcome to make biosensors viable for practical applications?
- What are key drivers of adoption of biosensors in the marketplace?
TABLE 2: Health Monitoring
Moderator: Ryan Spitler, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics Center, Stanford University School of Medicine
- Wearables/activity trackers
- Passive monitoring
- Strategies for better adoption
- Biomarkers
- Predictive Data Analytics
TABLE 3: Using Wearable Devices for Healthcare
Moderator: Mark Buccini, Director, Business Unit Strategy, Texas InstrumentsPatient willingness.
- Passive and semi-active fitness trackers are common place, but what about high quality patient bio data?
- There is still significant resistance by some to engage with the technology.
- Battery-life issues. The majority of trackers today need to be charged. But medical grade devices must be capable of operating for weeks or months without needing a charge, especially with elderly or restricted patients.
- Security and privacy. As with any medical technology, there are security and privacy concerns with data that may be transmitted wireless. How can this data be protected? Protected from hacking?
TABLE 4: Next Generation Implantables
Moderator: Bill von Novak, Principal Engineer, Qualcomm
- What medical needs in the patient population today cannot be addressed without medical implants?
- How does more rapid/frequent availability of patient data change the current treatment paradigm?
- How will data security issues affect the acceptance of medical implants?
12:15 pm Registration
1:40 Chairperson’s Remarks
Mark Buccini, Director, Business Unit Strategy, Texas Instruments
1:45 Wearable Electrochemical Sensors
Joseph Wang, Ph.D., SAIC Endowed Chair, Distinguished Professor, Chair of Nanoengineering Department, University of California San Diego
This presentation will discuss recent developments in the field of wearable sensors, integrated directly onto both textile materials and on the epidermis for various non-invasive monitoring applications. Technical challenges and prospects for using textile- and tattoo-based electrochemical sensors for monitoring the wearer’s health, fitness, or surrounding environment will be discussed, along with several demonstrations and prospects for future healthcare and sport applications.
2:15 Using Crowdsourced Sensor Data for the Benefit of All
Yvonne Lutsch Ph.D., Director of Technology Scouting, Bosch
2:45 Printed/Flexible/Stretchable and Functional Fabric Sensors and Sensor-Based Systems for E-Health and Fitness Applications
Roger H. Grace, President, Roger Grace Associates
To be presented will be a brief inventory of several of the more interesting printed, flexible, stretchable and functional fabric (P/F/S-FF) sensor and sensor-based system technologies currently under development or in production worldwide by commercial organizations that specifically address electronic health (e-Health) as well as portable/wearable fitness applications. In addition, we will address worldwide research and development activities at leading institutes and university research labs for these technologies.
3:15 Advancements in Capillary Pressure Re-Set Technology to Eliminate Breakthrough Pressure of Filtration Membranes
Michael McNeely, President/CEO, Executive Management, GattaCo LLC
A new Capillary Pressure Re-Set technology has been developed that eliminates the breakthrough pressure of filtration membranes. When used in conjunction with a whole blood sample and plasma separation membrane, plasma can be separated from the sample and metered to a precise volume all using passive capillary forces only. A rapid, disposable, no-moving parts, centrifuge replacement tool using this technology is presented.
3:45 Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing
4:15 Real-Time Bioelectronic Detection of Microbial Pathogens
Lisa Diamond, CEO, Pinpoint Diagnostics Division, Pinpoint Science LLC
A new generation of biosensor technology has made possible the immediate, label-free electrical detection of specific biomolecules with great precision and at low cost. A general-purpose device uses swappable cartridges to detect specific pathogens in samples of blood or other biofluids. Results are displayed in seconds with a smartphone app. This technology forms the basis for new, cost-effective, rapid point-of-care diagnostic assays for infectious diseases such as Zika, Ebola and pandemic influenza.
4:45 Wearable Sensors and Personalized Avatar for Warfighter Mobile Health and Protection
Andrezej Przekwas, Ph.D., CTO and Senior Vice President of Research, CFD Research Corporation
5:15 Growth Markets for Emerging and Biological Sensors
Khasha Ghaffarzadeh, Ph.D., Research Director, IDtechEX
Biosensors and chemical sensors are improving fast thanks to new materials microfabrication technologies and printed electronics. This presentation will highlight the latest innovations and their addressable markets. Applications in gas sensing, point-of-care diagnostics and wearables are the ones to watch.
5:45 End of Day
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Thursday, December 7
8:00 am Morning Coffee
8:25 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
Ray Huang, Principal Engineer, Exponent
8:30 FEATURED PRESENTATION: Panasonic’s Material Technology Development for Stretchable Electronic Applications
Andy Behr, Technology Manager, Electronic Materials Division, Panasonic
New classes of more durable and temperature resistant stretchable materials will enable the next wave of flexible electronics. Researchers from Panasonic Electronic Materials have developed a proprietary non-silicone thermosetting stretchable polymer technology which may address many of the challenges associated with current stretchable thermoplastic and thermosetting polymer materials. This resin has been used as the base for several developmental embodiments including a stretchable films and conductive pastes.
9:00 The Los Angeles Pediatric Research Integrated Sensor Monitoring Systems (PRISMS) Center
Rima Habre, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California
Dr. Habre will be
describing the informatics platform being developed within the Los
Angeles PRISMS Center. The Pediatric Research using Integrated Sensor
Monitoring Systems (PRISMS) program was launched by the US National
Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering to develop wearable,
sensor-based, integrated health monitoring systems for measuring
environmental, physiological, and behavioral factors in epidemiological
studies of pediatric asthma. The goal is to be able to predict ahead of
time, for a given individual, an asthma attack and mitigate if not
prevent it.
9:30 Power Optimized Processing Techniques to Maximize Battery Life in Deeply Embedded Sensor Systems
Mark Buccini, Director, Business Unit Strategy, Texas Instruments
This presentation describes several unique techniques useful in dramatically reducing the power consumption attributed to sensor processing in deeply embedded medical systems including personal portable health care and wearable, battery-powered applications. Managing a restricted power budget in small-scale battery-powered medical and wearable instruments is the fundamental message delivered in this presentation. The importance of a duty-cycling based system architecture, power-gating external sensors, utilizing autonomous processing and data conversion, as well as strict adherence of energy-aware firmware practices will be discussed and the benefits quantified.
10:00 Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing
10:45 Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for Sensing Applications
Sam Li, Ph.D., Professor, Chemistry, National University of Singapore
Here we demonstrate a new approach to prepare molecularly imprinted polydopamine (PDA) for chemical and biomolecular sensing applications. A thus prepared PDA sensor was demonstrated for the detection of 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (TCPAA), a commonly used pesticide, using quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) with a high selectivity and low detection limit (LOD) of 59.0 nM (15.1 ppb). We present a new approach for molecular imprinting with great potential applications in sensors, functional biomaterials, biomedicines, etc.
11:15 Sensor Reliability and Data Management
Ray Huang, Principal Engineer, Exponent
11:45 Reliability and Surface Stability in Potentiometric Biosensing
Eleanor Brightbill, Materials Science & Engineering Department, Georgia Institute of Technology
12:15 pm Luncheon Presentation (Sponsorship Opportunity Available) or Enjoy Lunch on Your Own
1:40 Chairperson’s Remarks
Stacey Standridge, Acting Chief of Staff, National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, National Nanotechnology Initiative
1:45 Taking Wearables to the Next Generation
Shreyas Shah, Ph.D., Member of the Technical Staff, Physiological Communications, Bell Labs/Nokia
The vast array of biological signals emanating from our body are important indicators of our overall health and well-being. While measuring vital signs is now commonplace in the comforts of our very homes, tapping into the rich in-body biochemistry has proven to be much more challenging. This talk will highlight our development at Bell Labs towards an integrated solution on this front, leveraging our expertise in nano/bio-materials, advanced photonics, MEMs and wireless network architectures.
2:15 Wearable Computers on the Edge of the Cloud
Roozbeh Jafari, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems, Texas A&M University
In the past few years, the sensor community has observed a large number of applications that have been developed using wearable computers. There are, however, a number of fundamental challenges that need to be addressed before realizing the true ubiquitous use of the wearable systems for health, wellness and consumer applications. We will present our experimental results and validation studies on several cohorts of human subjects for various applications and will offer concluding remarks on the trends of wearable computing technology development and potential future directions for consumer electronics.
2:45 Privacy and Security Regulatory Considerations in the Use of Wearable Devices
Roger Shindell, President and CEO, C Suite, Carosh Compliance Solutions
In the rapidly changing world of wearable medical devices maintaining the security and privacy of information being collected and transmitted is on everyone’s mind. With more and more regulatory agencies getting involved in these privacy and security issues, a clear understanding of your obligations under HIPAA/HITECH, the Federal Trade Commission, the FDA, and even the Securities and Exchange Commission is critical.
3:15 Networking Refreshment Break
4:00 PANEL DISCUSSION: Sensor Commercialization - Challenges and Opportunities
Moderator:
Stacey Standridge, Acting Chief of Staff, National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, National Nanotechnology Initiative
This panel will focus on the identification and discussion of challenges that are faced by the sensor development community during the fabrication, integration, and commercialization of sensors. The National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO) provides technical and administrative support to the Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee, serves as a central point of contact for federal nanotechnology R&D activities, and provides public outreach on behalf of the National Nanotechnology Initiative.
5:00 End of Biological and Chemical Sensors for Emerging Applications
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