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Abstract

In order to energize the biomedical implantable electronic devices wirelessly for in vivo health monitoring of patients in an isolated, outdoor and inaccessible environment, an alternate driving energy source is highly desirable. In pertinent to this, a photovoltaic driven wireless energizing system has been explored. The system is designed to convert solar energy to a high frequency energy source so as to facilitate energy transfer through resonant inductive link to the automated bio-medical sensing system allied with the receiver unit. The received power is observed to be 286 mW for the coil separation gap of 3 cm and load value of 40 Ω at the resonant frequency of 772.3 kHz. The automated biomedical smart sensor is competent to acquire the body parameter and transmit the consequent telemetry data from the body to the data recording segment. The real-time body temperature parameter of different living beings has been experimented, and to ensure the accuracy of the developed system, the observed parameter has been matched with a calibrated system. The proposed scheme can be suitable for monitoring wirelessly other in vivo health parameters such as blood pressure, bladder pressure, and physiological signals of the patients.

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Dr. Biswaranjan Swain

Dr. Dipti Patnaik

Dr. Jayshree Halder

Dr. Praveen Priyaranjan Nayak

Dr. Durga Prasanna Kar

Dr. Satyanarayan Bhuyan