Experimental Assessment of Wireless Monitoring of Axilla Temperature by Means of Epidermal Battery-Less RFID Sensors

Camera, Francesca; Amato, Francesco; Occhiuzzi, Cecilia; Marrocco, Gaetano

doi:10.1109/lsens.2020.3036486

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“…If placed in the armpit region (Fig. 13), they are well correlated with a standard axilla electronic thermometer (Pearson's coefficient p = 0.78) with a difference of less than 0.6 • C in the 95% of measurements [180].…”

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A Survey on Radio Frequency Identification as a Scalable Technology to Face Pandemics

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The COVID-19 pandemic forced mankind to unprecedented global challenges, drastically changing our way of living. To minimize life losses, multi-level strategies requiring collective efforts were adopted, while waiting for researchers and Pharma companies to develop vaccines. The management of so complex processes has partly taken benefit from a network vision and from the rising framework of the Internet of Things (IoT). Among the several technologies converging to IoT, the Radiofrequency Identification (RFID), based on backscattering communication, is probably the approach that is most suitable to both the micro (the user) and the macro (the processes) scale. Accordingly, a single infrastructure can support almost all the logistic and monitoring issues related to the war against a pandemic. Based on the earned COVID-19 experience, this paper is a guide about how state-of-the-art RFID systems can be employed in facing future pandemic outbreaks. The three pillars of the contrast are addressed, namely: 1) use and managing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), 2) access control and social distancing, and 3) early detection of symptoms. For each class, the envisaged RFID devices and procedures are identified and discussed based on the already available technology and on the state of the art of worldwide research. The presented guide tells us that this technology has a real potentiality to play a key role in generating an extraordinary amount of data, so that complementary paradigms of Edge Computing and Artificial intelligence should be tightly integrated to extract profiles and identify anomalous events, in compliance with privacy and security.

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“…12.b), [182] (Fig. 12.c), and small [180] (Fig. 13), paying also attention to their reusability to reduce fabrication costs and pollution [187].…”

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A Survey on Radio Frequency Identification as a Scalable Technology to Face Pandemics

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“…In the last years, some research groups (e.g., Gaetano Marroco et al) have developed epidermal temperature sensors based on UHF RFID tags [47][48][49][50]. The accuracy depends on the RFID integrated circuit, which embeds the temperature sensor and the RFID communication.…”

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Smart Face Mask with an Integrated Heat Flux Sensor for Fast and Remote People’s Healthcare Monitoring

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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a large amount of challenges to address. To combat the spread of the virus, several safety measures, such as wearing face masks, have been taken. Temperature controls at the entrance of public places to prevent the entry of virus carriers have been shown to be inefficient and inaccurate. This paper presents a smart mask that allows to monitor body temperature and breathing rate. Body temperature is measured by a non-invasive dual-heat-flux system, consisting of four sensors separated from each other with an insulating material. Breathing rate is obtained from the temperature changes within the mask, measured with a thermistor located near the nose. The system communicates by means of long-range (LoRa) backscattering, leading to a reduction in average power consumption. It is designed to establish the relative location of the smart mask from the signal received at two LoRa receivers installed inside and outside an access door. Low-cost LoRa transceivers with WiFi capabilities are used in the prototype to collect information and upload it to a server. Accuracy in body temperature measurements is consistent with measurements made with a thermistor located in the armpit. The system allows checking the correct placement of the mask based on the recorded temperatures and the breathing rate measurements. Besides, episodes of cough can be detected by sudden changes in thermistor temperature.

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“…Passive RFID technology working at ultra-high frequency (UHF) can be used in healthcare infrastructures. Possible applications include tracking of physiological parameters such as patient body temperature [9][10][11][12], blood glucose monitoring [13,14], real-time monitoring, and discrimination of breath anomalies [15], as well as monitoring of blood tubes [16,17] and bags [18][19][20][21][22][23][24] for the management of blood products [25][26][27].…”

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A Flexible and Low-Cost UHF RFID Tag Antenna for Blood Bag Traceability

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A new low-profile flexible RFID tag antenna operating in the ultra-high frequency (UHF) European band (865 MHz–868 MHz) is proposed for blood bag traceability. Its structure combines inductive and capacitive parts with nested slots allowing for the achieving of conjugate impedance matching with the IC-chip. The whole electrical parameters of the environment (substrate, bag, and blood) were considered for the design of the tag antenna. A good agreement was obtained between the measurements and electromagnetic simulations for the input impedance of the tag antenna in the UHF band. A reading range close to 2.5 m was experimentally obtained. Therefore, this tag antenna could be effective and useful in future RFID systems for blood bag monitoring, thus improving patient safety in healthcare infrastructures.

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Experimental Assessment of Wireless Monitoring of Axilla Temperature by Means of Epidermal Battery-Less RFID Sensors

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A Survey on Radio Frequency Identification as a Scalable Technology to Face Pandemics

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Smart Face Mask with an Integrated Heat Flux Sensor for Fast and Remote People’s Healthcare Monitoring

A Flexible and Low-Cost UHF RFID Tag Antenna for Blood Bag Traceability

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