Wearable Optoelectronic Life Sign Monitors

Jens Arnulf Krauss received his Master degree in 1991 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ) followed by a research stage at the Automatic Control Laboratory of the 'Politecnico di Milano' (PoliMi) in the field of robot control. Back to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich at the Institute of Biomechanics in 1993, Mr Krauss lead the control software development team of ESA's Life Science Project TVD (Torque-Velocity-Dynamometer), a device which analyses the evolution of the human muscle in microgravity. Mr Krauss completed his mission with success with the training of the crew members of the Space Shuttle Mission STS-78 in 1996. Mr Krauss then joined CSEM and is heading today the Control & Signal Processing section at CSEM. Mr Krauss is involved in control engineering of high-precision mechanical systems and signal processing in the biomedical domain at CSEM, in particular for advanced signal processing of physical activity signals and detection and estimation methods for biomedical signals such as pulse, SpO2, ECG, blood pressure and others. Mr Krauss is holder of several patents within the control engineering and the biomedical domain.

CSEM provides wireless sensor network technology optimised for energy autonomy and for ease of deployment. Through hardware/software co-design CSEM's WiseNET technology achieves autonomy of 30 times more than standard systems. WiseMAC is a self-configuring, self-healing mesh networking protocol optimised for ad hoc WSN networks. Icycom is an ultra low power WSN node on a chip, with 1V/2mA operation compatible with energy harvesting. Applications include agriculture, civil engineering and environmental monitoring. At IDTechEx CSEM will be demonstrating an agricultural application using an energy harvesting source.