Closing the technical sessions of this year’s ITF, Harmke de Groot, imec program director for ultralow-power technologies, discussed automated body monitoring, and how it could impact future healthcare. The vision she painted is one of unobtrusive, comfortable sensors that are worn on the body -- possibly hidden into clothing, attached to the body as intelligent patches, or even, in the extreme case, implanted. Sensors that measure body parameters and send them wirelessly to a base station and from there on to the hospital.
