• 文献标题:   Design and Experimentation of a Batteryless On-Skin RFID Graphene-Oxide Sensor for the Monitoring and Discrimination of Breath Anomalies
  • 文献类型:   Article, Proceedings Paper
  • 作  者:   CACCAMI MC, MULLA MYS, OCCHIUZZI C, DI NATALE C, MARROCCO G
  • 作者关键词:   breath sensor, graphene oxide, rfid technology, skin antenna, wireless monitoring
  • 出版物名称:   IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
  • ISSN:   1530-437X EI 1558-1748
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Roma Tor Vergata
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1109/JSEN.2018.2867208
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Real-time and comfortable monitoring of the human breathing could allow identifying anomalies in the rhythm and waveform to be correlated with several pathologic disorders of respiratory and cardiovascular systems. A wireless sensor based on a flexible Kapton substrate, suitable to be stuck over the face skin like a plaster and provided with a graphene-oxide (GO) electrode, is here proposed for application to the monitoring of the moisture emitted during inhalations and exhalations. The GO-based electrode increases its dc resistance when exposed to humidity with a sensitivity of 60 Omega/RH. The device is compatible with the radiofrequency identification (RFID) standard in the UHF band. When used in battery-less mode, it can be read up to 60 cm. The RFID sensor has been successfully experimented in a measurement campaign involving 10 volunteers asked to reproduce a set of predefined normal and pathological breaths. The resulting resistance traces permit to well clusterize the breath patterns with respect to the respiration rate (extracted by a fast Fourier transform) and to the average peak variation of the sensor's resistance with an accuracy close to 90%.