NIH Grant Title:  Pediatric Research using Integrated Sensor Monitoring Systems (PRISMS) Program, Professor Zhenyu Li –PI (BME), and Professor Mona E. Zaghloul CO-PI (ECE)

Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases in children, affecting approximately 6.1 million children under 18 in the US. The annual cost of   treating pediatric asthma is 3.2 billion dollars. In this project, we are designing sensors to detect toxic gases in the environment that children are exposed to, in the children, and in homes that trigger asthma in children. The Sensors provided are to be worn by the children as well as stationary sensors are placed in the children’s homes. Electronics are designed to read the sensors and transmit the data through wireless to cloud or to and iPhone.  The electronics are encased in a small package to be wearable in the form of a watch structure.  The data is being stored in the cloud for analysis. The work is in collaboration with the doctors at the DC National Pediatric Hospital. The general architecture of the cloud-based wearable IoT aldehyde sensor system for asthma research and management is shown in the attached Figure.

Several other sensors were developed and were deployed on asthma patients.

The work was published in several papers, and it set the ground for IoT distributed sensors.