This mini-review covers the newly developed biosensoristic and chemosensoristic devices described in recent literature for detection of contaminants in both environmental and food real matrices. Current needs in environmental and food surveillance of contaminants require new simplified, sensitive systems, which are portable and allow for rapid and on-site monitoring and diagnostics. Here, we fo...

background: anzali wetland has been subjected to high levels of pollution due to contamination from several industrial sites in addition to agricultural chemicals. mussels have been widely used for monitoring pollution in aquatic ecosystems, because they, as filter feeders, bioaccumulate pollutants. therefore we decided to evaluate anodonta cygnea for its application as a bio-monitor for copper...

In recent years much progress has been made in the integration of physical transducers into clothing e.g. breathing rate, heart rate and temperature [1]. The integration of chemical sensing into textiles adds a new dimension to the field of smart clothing. Wearable chemical sensors may be used to provide valuable information about the wearer’s health, monitoring the wearer during their daily ro...

A novel micro-needle array electrode (MAE) fabricated by thermal drawing and coated with Ti/Au film was proposed for bio-signals monitoring. A simple and effective setup was employed to form glassy-state poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) into a micro-needle array (MA) by the thermal drawing method. The MA was composed of 6 × 6 micro-needles with an average height of about 500 μm. Electrode-...

This paper presents the design and fabrication of a broadband UHF RFID tag for biomonitoring applications. The proposed tag is realized with a thin FR4 substrate of 200μm, which can be considered as flexible. It shows good performances both in free space and placed on human body. For instance, in free space, the tag can be read at 14m in the UHF RFID band and at an average distance of 4.6m when...

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BioMPE (Bio-inspired Monitoring of Pervasive Environments) is a research project undertaken by the Pervasive and Artificial Intelligence research group at the Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg in Switzerland. The main goal of BioMPE is to build an intelligent and context-aware pervasive computing middleware to address the issues of reliability and dynamic adaptation of P2P overl...

Vehicular sensor networks (VSNs) provide a collaborative sensing environment where mobile vehicles equipped with sensors of different nature (from chemical detectors to still/video cameras) inter-work to implement monitoring applications such as traffic reporting, environment monitoring, and distributed surveillance. In particular, there is an increasing interest in proactive urban monitoring w...