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wearable electronics Case Study: Wearable Electronics
Sensors and circuitry for healthcare and related applications.

With healthcare, medical and veterinary applications there's a great deal more involved than just electronics performance. Comfort and invasiveness are key elements too which is why clients are increasingly looking to MLE's unique capability for combining sensors and circuitry with fabrics, plastics and other materials.

MLE has developed solutions to a broad range of health-related measurement challenges. For example, we've pioneered an impedance sensor that can be strapped across the chest to monitor RIP - a key metric of breathing dysfunction.  The system incorporates a Bluetooth® link to send alerts via mobile phones, as well as impedance monitoring and analysis.

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Another first: MLE was commissioned to develop an electrocardiograph for dogs - previously a notoriously difficult procedure. Other successes include: using wearable accelerometers to analyse animal gait and human patient's activity levels; enuresis sensors in bedding for care homes. The list goes on ...

All these variety of applications have one thing in common: MLE's expertise in both miniaturisation and wearable technology. As well as implementing electronic systems that are small in profile and footprint, our expertise extends through power-saving technologies to ISO13485improve battery life, and advanced techniques to boost the range of communications devices. This is combined with a unique expertise in materials and fabrics. From using low-impedance materials for conductors and electrodes, to innovative ways of packaging and attaching the electronics modules, MLE's expertise runs from plastics, through fabrics and carpeting, to mattress covers and sensor straps. Not surprisingly, we hold a number of patents for wearable technology.  At MLE, the know-how, experience and multi-discipline skills combine with a practical, empirical and pragmatic approach. 

 

 

 

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