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The 2022 World Sensors Summit was held on August 21, 2022. It application scenario session “Wearable Sensors and Wise Medical” was held in the Dahe Hall of Zhengzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center, with about 200 participants. As people pay more and more attention to health, wearable techniques are increasingly applied in the field of medical care and health. Experts in this field were invited to interpret and share the latest achievements and applications.

Wang Liangqi delivering a speech

Li Huifang delivering a speech

Professor Huang Qing’an (moderator)

This session was moderated by Professor Huang Qing’an of Southeast University. Wang Liangqi (member of the Party group, Deputy Director and first-level inspector of the Health Commission of Henan Province) and Li Huifang (Deputy Secretary-General of Zhengzhou Municipal Government) attended the session and delivered their speeches. Zhang Wenyan (second-level inspector of the Health Commission of Henan Province) also attended this session.

Video report presented by Professor Meng Qinghu

The first guest speaker was Professor Meng Qinghu, Academician of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and Director of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology. Using the title Looking, Listening, Questioning, Pulse Feeling, Treatment and Healthcare of Smart Medical Care, he illustrated smart medical care in terms of looking, listening, questioning, pulse feeling, treatment and healthcare. In addition to cases combining medical robots and traditional medical care, he shared his experience in researching smart medical care. In his opinion, smart medical care has great influence on the development of the medical industry as it overcomes the limitations of human capabilities as well as bottlenecks and restrictions of existing operations.

Video report by presented Professor Chen Xiaodong

The second guest speaker was Professor Chen Xiaodong from the Department of Material Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His report is titled “Artificial Sense Technology”. He introduced the artificial sense technology from two aspects, namely, how to simulate biological sensing and how to surpass biological sensing. With examples and research data, he explained the benefits and difficulties of the artificial sense technology. In his opinion, the artificial sense technology R&D is closely related to the future life of human beings.

Video report presented by Professor Chen Jun

The third guest speaker was Professor Chen Jun from UCLA. His report is titled “Smart Textiles for Personalized Health Care”. He focused on the low-cost wearable biomedical device suitable for development and application, namely, smart textiles made with triboelectric nanogenerators into fabrics. In his opinions, such devices are more beneficial to daily life, such as triboelectric nanosheets for sleep monitoring, non-woven smart textiles for accurate pulse monitoring, stretchable smart gloves capable of translating the sign language into spoken language, smart cooling textiles for curing burns, charging textiles capable of receiving solar energy, etc. According to his report, it can be seen that smart textiles play a significant role in personal health.

Video report presented by Professor Gao Wei

The fourth guest speaker was Professor Gao Wei from California Institute of Technology. His report was titled “Skin-interfaced Wearable Biosensors”. Professor Gao believes that there are huge improvement spaces or development opportunities for wearable biosensors. He introduced the skin-interfaced wearable biosensors in his team’s recent research, focusing on wearable sweat sensors. Through experiments and researches, Professor Gao and his team thought that sweat is a better monitoring object and also designed a structure to induce sweating for those that sweat little. The data detection and management of gout patients, pressure-specific diagnosis or soft electronic skin driven by no battery biofuel were experimented based on sweat. More future application potential of wearable sweat sensors has been identified.

Report presented by Professor Xu Tailin

The fifth guest speaker was Professor Zhang Xueji, Vice President of Shenzhen University and Academician of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Because of the pandemic, Professor Zhang did not come to the scene. His report was presented by his student Professor Xu Tailin on behalf, with the title “Smart Biosensors: Challenges and Prospects”. Professor Xu explained the experimental data and cases of smart biosensors and also introduced the research and development of smart biosensors. In his opinion, smart biosensors are the premise of smart medical care and also the future development trend. Accurate diagnosis is helpful to greatly improve the medical efficiency and also reduces high costs arising from improper treatments, thus brining extensive social benefits.

Video report presented by Associate Professor Huang Yanyan

The last speaker was Huang Yanyan, associate professor of engineering at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her report was titled “3D Printing and Biofabrication for Healthcare and Sustainability”. Professor Huang introduced her and her team's work in 3D printing and biofabrication from four aspects: fiber printing, soft material printing, organs on chips and internal organ engineering. In the opinion of Professor Huang, these techniques are crucial for the future healthcare and sustainable development.

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As important parts of smart medical care, wearable medical devices overcome the restrictions and barriers of conventional medical devices. Due to their advanced data acquisition and analysis capabilities, portable, and wearable and easy-to-operate structures, they quickly become dominant in the market, without any defects of conventional medical devices. In the future vigorous development of the medical industry, wearable sensors and smart medical care are the most powerful impetus.