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Handbook of Research on Personal Autonomy Technologies and Disability Informatics
Device that transforms a physical magnitude into a different physical magnitude, such as, mechanical energy into electric energy.
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Sensors and their Application for Disabled and Elderly People
Jesus Tomas (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain), Jaime Lloret (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain), Diana Bri (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain), and Sandra Sendra (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-206-0.ch020
Abstract
Over the years, several systems have been developed in order to improve the quality of life of the disabled and elderly people. Moreover, many systems and devices have been deployed based on their necessities. All of these systems integrate sensors, in order to carry out their functions, and they combine the electronic field, for the sensing systems, and the mechanic field, for their mobile parts. In this paper, we will classify the sensors and their basic principles. The signals gathered by them usually have very low values, thus operational amplifiers are employed frequently to amplify these signals. Finally, we will show the most well known sensor applications for disabled and elderly people. It will be very useful for researchers that need to integrate sensors in their deployment.
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Molecularly-Imprinted Nanomaterial-Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensors in Molecular Diagnosis
It is the part of biosensor where the biointeractions turn into a measurable signal.
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