WearNet

WearNet: Smart Health Monitoring & Diagnosis System based on Wearable Nano-biosensing Networks, is led by the University at Buffalo (PI: J. M. Jornet) with the participation of two partners, Intel Corp. and Garwood Medical Devices. The project is aimed at developing a smart health monitoring and diagnosis system that leverages the state-of-the-art in nano-biosensing, wearable device technology and communication and signal processing. The proposed system consists of (1) a nanoplasmonic biochip, implanted subcutaneously and built on a flexible substrate; (2) a nanophotonic smart band or wearable device that is able to collect in-vivo signals on-demand and relay them wirelessly to the user?s smartphone by means of a secure data transfer; and (3) advanced signal processing techniques implemented on the smartphone to extract the relevant data from the received signals, and provide a diagnosis in real-time. Moreover, the collected data is anonymized and stored in a cloud-based database, where it remains accessible to researchers and can be used to develop new understanding and serve as training sets for machine-learning algorithms that can improve automatic diagnosis. While the proposed platform will be designed to broadly accommodate different nano-biosensing technologies, the focus of this three-year-long project will be on demonstrating the feasibility and developing a testbed for monitoring of lung cancer.

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