Today's demanding medical treatment and pharmaceutical production require careful control of fluidic process conditions. This includes tasks like accurate feedback on the respiratory status of the patient, detecting occlusions during infusions, process monitoring during cell culture, purification, or drug product formulation, etc. The key enabling technology to digitize such tasks is to have cost-efficient multi-sensing capabilities at the most critical edge point of the process. The currently used medical/pharma systems lack sensing capabilities as sensors are expensive to integrate, generally sense only one physical parameter, are bulky, with a big environmental footprint, need an electrical power source, and cannot provide wireless power transmission and multisensing at the edge. Multi-sensing at the edge offers new opportunities to develop intelligent monitoring networks in hospitals and pharma manufacturing to provide fast and accurate responses saving costs and also lowering the environmental footprint at the time of sensors manufacturing.
EZMEMS provides DETERMINATION, a ‘Smart Disposable multisensor' that transform simple medical or biotech products (infusion lines, fittings, plastic bags, bioreactor, transportation line) into 'Smart products' in an easy and cost-effective way. The multisensor is non-invasive, has low footprint, and provides robust multi-sensing (pressure, flow, temperature, conductivity, turbidity and pH) and can even have fully wireless connectivity (no battery, no wires, energy harvesting) at the edge. EZMEMS' multisensor technology is based on advanced polymeric multi-layered matrix composite structure integrating micro electro mechanical (MEMS) elements. DETERMINATION can be fabricated in mass production facilities.
