NAFAS: Non-Rigid Air Flow Active Sensor, a Cost-Effective, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Respiratory Bio-Sensor

• Published in: IEEE sensors journal Vol. 21; no. 7; pp. 9530 - 9537
• Main Authors: Annabestani, Mohsen, Esmaeili-Dokht, Pouria, Nejad, Sina Khazaee, Fardmanesh, Mehdi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.04.2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: <italic xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">i -EPA; Air flow; Biosensors; Breathing; Breathing pattern; Electroactive polymers; Electrodes; IPMC; Lung; Mechanical sensors; NAFAS; POCT; Polymers; Pulmonary functions; Respiratory diseases; Respiratory system; Sensors; soft sensor; Spirometers; Strain; Temperature measurement; Wearable technology

A Non-rigid Air Flow Active Sensor (NAFAS) to detect the respiratory patterns is introduced in this paper. The main part of NAFAS is an ionic electroactive polymer-based (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">{i} </tex-math></inline-formula>-EAP) soft sensor....