Implantable biomedical devices - like pacemakers, insulin pumps and neurostimulators - are becoming smaller and utilizing wireless technology, but hurdles remain for powering the next-generation ...

Penn State researchers, from left Bed Poudel, research professor, and Sumanta Kumar Karan, postdoctoral scholar, both in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering; and Sujay Hosur, doctoral ...

Ultrasound-based wireless power transfer is becoming a more attractive option to power implanted biomedical devices because it could overcome many of the limitations and challenges facing other ...

IMEC, together with its sister company IMEC-Nederland at the Holst Centre, has announced two new body-monitoring wireless sensor nodes which collect and process data from human body sensors and ...

Gaetano Borriello at U. Washington; Intel, Small embedded computers and communications protocols; Deborah Estrin at U. California, Los Angeles, Networking, middleware, data handling, and hardware for ...

Advancements in low-power and reliable wireless communications, together with improvements in sensor and energy harvesting technologies is making it more practical and more efficient to use this type ...