Unobtrusive printed piezoelectric sensors for non-invasive biosignal monitoring (UNOPIEZO)

This MSCA IF project aims to develop highly unobtrusive piezoelectric sensors for non-invasive bio-signal monitoring.

For example, continuous and large-scale health monitoring of CVD risk population carries significant benefits to the society (e.g. decreased mortality and treatment costs due to early disease detection), but is currently not possible because of the lack of unobtrusive, affordable and accurate bio-signal sensors.

This project proposes to solve these issues through development of ultra-thin (< 10 µm thick) piezoelectric sensors, which attach conformably to the skin and improve the mechanical coupling between the skin-sensor interface thereby resulting in highly unobtrusive user experience and accurate signal reproduction. Cost-effective additive fabrication technologies are employed to make the devices affordable and to enable their mass-scale fabrication required for large-scale screening of the whole risk population.

Design of the sensor is done in collaboration with prof. John Rogers research group at Northwestern University (USA), while the print process development and bio-signal measurements are done at Tampere University.