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Body Dust: Well Beyond Wearable and Implantable Sensors

Carrara, Sandro  
June 1, 2021
Ieee Sensors Journal

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 Dust is actually in the field of Dust for brain applications (Neural Dust) or for metabolism monitoring (Body Dust). Aim of this feature article is to review all the developments presented so far in literature, and then define the next steps and challenges. First, we see the field of Smart Dust and, then, its application to human sensing. The paper starts from details about the early phases of the research in the area, and first developments. Then, it reviews the recent advancements in the field, for then closing with the definition of the still-open challenges for realizing motes that could spread in human body as thousands of individual sensors in a kind of sensing active network capable to provide telemetry from inside the body. The Body Dust concept discussed in this article is well beyond the present concepts of wearable or implantable devices. These last are actually entering into the market to provide personalized and more precise medicine to human health, while the Body Dust concept definitely represents the future of humans monitoring, still opens to scientific explorations.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/JSEN.2020.3029432
Web of Science ID

WOS:000655846200009

Author(s)
Carrara, Sandro  
Date Issued

2021-06-01

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Published in
Ieee Sensors Journal
Volume

21

Issue

11

Start page

12398

End page

12406

Subjects

Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Instruments & Instrumentation

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Physics, Applied

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Engineering

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Physics

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monitoring

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intelligent sensors

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biomedical monitoring

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biosensors

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optical sensors

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wearable sensors

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smart dust

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neural dust

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body dust

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cmos

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mems

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brain-stimulation

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validation

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accuracy

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devices

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system

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June 19, 2021
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