Recent advances in skin-like wearable sensors: sensor design, health monitoring, and intelligent auxiliary
Résumé
When entering old age, the tissue structure of the body begins to age, the functions of various organs appear
disordered, resistance declines and is prone to various geriatric diseases. Geriatric diseases are characterized
by a long course of the disease, slow recovery, and high medical costs. Therefore, a simple, rapid,
economical, and effective method is urgently needed to detect the indicators of patients for long-term
and continuous monitoring to reduce the medical burden. Wearable sensors, with their advantages of realtime,
economical, simple operation, and non-invasion have attracted extensive attention and have good
application potential in the health monitoring of elderly patients and the development of intelligent auxiliary
devices. This paper reviews the research progress of skin-like wearable sensors in health monitoring and
intelligent auxiliary devices in recent years. According to different sensing mechanisms, this paper introduces
skin-like wearable sensors for health monitoring, including electrochemistry, bioimpedance, photoelectricity,
and other wearable sensors, as well as related research for the development of intelligent auxiliary
devices. Finally, this paper summarizes the applications and future challenges of developing the skinlike
wearable sensor into a widely used and accepted home medical device for elderly patients.