Miniaturized wireless, skin-integrated sensor networks for quantifying full-body movement behaviors and vital signs in infants

• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2104925118
• Publication Date: 2021-10-19T00:38:01Z
• Authors: Hyoyoung Jeong; Sung Soo Kwak; Seokwoo Sohn; Jong Yoon Lee; Young Joong Lee; Megan K. O’Brien; Yoonseok Park; Raudel Avila; Jin-Tae Kim; Jae-Young Yoo; Masahiro Irie; Hokyung Jang; Wei Ouyang; Nicholas Shawen; Youn J. Kang; Seung Sik Kim; Andreas Tzavelis; KunHyuck Lee; Rachel A. Andersen; Yonggang Huang; Arun Jayaraman; Matthew M. Davis; Thomas Shanley; Lauren S. Wakschlag; Sheila Krogh-Jesp...; Shuai Xu; Shirley W. Ryan; Richard L. Lieber; John A. Rogers
• Keywords: Monitoring; Movement; Video Recording; 610; motion recapitulation; Imaging; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; Bias; Respiratory Rate; Heart Rate; Humans; wireless sensor networks; Physiologic; Child; Monitoring, Physiologic; Skin; movement behaviors; Miniaturization; Vital Signs; Infant; 600; Equipment Design; infants motor skill; 3. Good health; Three-Dimensional; Physical Sciences; Infant Behavior; Wireless Technology

Significance Early detection of infant neuromotor pathologies is critical for timely therapeutic interventions that rely on early-life neuroplasticity. Traditional assessments subjective expert evaluations or specialized medical facilities, making them challenging to scale in remote and/or resource-constrained settings. The results presented here aim democratize these using wireless networks miniaturized, skin-integrated sensors digitize movement behaviors and vital signs infants a cost-effective manner. resulting data yield full-body motion reconstructions the form deidentified avatars, along with range important cardiopulmonary information. This technology approach enables rapid, routine at any age via an engineering platform has potential use nearly setting across developed developing countries alike.