Self-powered wearable sensor platforms for wellness

Health care continues to be one of the biggest challenges facing our society. Factors such as lifestyle choices, genetics, aging, stress and environmental exposures play a critical role in determining health outcomes. Wearable technologies that can enable continuous/long-term personal health monitoring and personal environmental monitoring can empower users to make better lifestyle decisions and improve health outcomes. While wearable devices promise a compelling future of achieving wellness, current wearable products are not addressing the needs of the health space. To achieve this future, key challenges in wearable systems such as battery life, form factor, sensor functionality, configurability and data analysis will have to be carefully addressed to ensure user adoption and effectively manage health.