Workshops

Sunday | October 29, 2023 | 8:30 - 12:00

The workshop provide an overview of advancement with microelectrodes array technology. The development and application of these sensors have become increasingly important in various fields, including biomedical, environmental, and industrial applications. We will cover the basic principles of microelectrode sensor design and fabrication and explore various simulation tools available for designing and optimizing sensor performance. It will display how these electrodes can be simulated using COMSOL highlighting different application. We will show the importance of sustainability in sensor development and discuss strategies for reducing the environmental impact of sensor manufacturing and disposal. The workshop will also focus on techniques like surface acoustic wave and electrochemical-based sensors. In hands on/ demo session we will also demonstrate microelectrodes sensor with application like milk stability testing, gas sensing and soil nutrient detection.

Sunday | October 29, 2023 | 13:30 - 17:00

Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) devices are used in many applications nowadays. This workshop aims to reveal more details on one group of MEMS sensors, namely MEMS based Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs). Those are being widely used in consumer electronic products for a large variety of applications. We also give each participant opportunity to learn more by “playing” with inertial sensors in their smart phones / tablets (they bring with) or using demo sensor board which will be available during the workshop.

Sunday | October 29, 2023 | 8:30 - 17:00

This workshop aims to gather original articles on advances, fabrication, innovative applications, new challenges and future perspectives of BIA-based (Bio)sensors in important areas of biomedical engineering, health, IoT, agri-food and environmental. There will be 3 oral presentations in the morning with a break between. The other 2 oral presentations will after lunch break, followed by a practical presentation by ScioSpec showing how to perform a biological impedance analysis using the company's spectrometer. At the end, a panel discussion will be formed to discuss feature trends on bioimpedance sensing platforms for industrial applications.

Sunday | October 29, 2023 | 8:30 - 17:00

The European H2020 ZeroAMP project (https://www.zeroamp.eu) is developing foundations for future use of nanoelectromechanical (NEM) switches in integrated circuits (ICs). As NEM switches can tolerate operating temperatures of up to 300°C and radiation levels of 5 Mrad, they are ideally suited to bring electronics into harsh environments which are not accessible for conventional CMOS-based ICs.

Our workshop will give its participants a general overview of the NEM technology platform developed in ZeroAMP. Initial applications and their potential for future sensor and status monitoring devices will be discussed and a path towards commercial exploitation of the technology in ZeroAMP´s follow-up Horizon Europe project i-EDGE (https://www.i-edge-project.eu) will the outlined. The workshop will feature an interactive panel session to allow participant to familiarize themselves with basic NEM switch and integration concepts, the current state of the art and potential application scenarios for NEM switch-based ICs.

Tuesday | October 31, 2023 | 8:30 - 15:30

Vital Signs Monitoring (VSM) is the process of measuring and tracking important physiological parameters to assess  the overall health and well-being of an individual. Monitoring human body activity   is now opening the way to new opportunities for both wellness/fitness and medical applications, ranging from heart analysis, respiration rate and SpO2 to blood pressure and body temperature.  Nowadays, common practice is to have just punctual snapshots of vital signs by electrocardiograms, glycemia level, spO2 and blood pressure through medical examination. New technologies are enablers for a continuous measurement of these health parameters to infer and predict organs/ tissues, and metabolic pathways malfunctions. For instance, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) best illustrates this revolution with  significant improvement in diabetic patients  well-being.