1. Amar Basu Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering/Biomedical Engineering Phone:
Educational Background
BSE, MSE, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, UM Ann Arbor
MSE Biomedical Engineering, UM Ann Arbor
Work Experience
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering (since 2008)
Research Interests:
Microfluidics, Biomedical Instrumentation, bioMEMS
Wearable sensors, mobile health
3 NSF projects in microfluidics
1 project in wearable sensors from Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI)

2. Ford’s existing health/wellness platform
Glucose
monitoring
for
diabetics
Pollen/Allergy
Alert ?
What other innovative devices can provide value and integration?

3. Driver Safety and Wellness Through In-vehicle Physiological Monitoring Bengt Arnetz (School of Medicine), Amar Basu (Electrical Engineering)
Yerkes Dodson law
Driver fatigue and performance accounts for the majority of accidents
Ford Health and Wellness platform encompasses driver safety, performance, and in-vehicle wellness.
Biofeedback including fatigue/stress, locational information, situational awareness, longitudinal behavior

4. Patient Centered Healthcare using RPM

5. Wearable physiological monitoring
Camera PPG
(Azumio)
Finger clip PPG
(Nonin, SPO)
Ring PPG
Asada et al, MIT
ECG Chest Straps
(Polar)
Handheld ECG
(Omron)
Watch ECG
(Mio)
For continuous, wearable sensors, key constraints are:
Size
No patient burden
Cost
Power consumption
Plug and play
Single Chip Sensor
(WSU)

6. Ultraminiature PPG Sensors for Health Monitoring
Amar Basu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Philip Levy, Department of Emergency Medicine
Bengt Arnetz, Department of Family Medicine
Chandrasekhar, Arnetz, Levy, Basu, IEEE EMBS 2012