Survey on Energy Harvesting for Biomedical Devices: Applications, Challenges and Future Prospects for African Countries
Self-powered biomedical devices, which are the new vision of Internet Of Things (IOT) healthcare, are facing many technical and application challenges. Many research works have reported biomedical devices and self-powered applications for healthcare, along with various strategies to improve the moni...
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| author | Djakou Nekui Olivier Wei Wang Cheng Liu Zhixia Wang Bei Ding |
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| description | Self-powered biomedical devices, which are the new vision of Internet Of Things (IOT) healthcare, are facing many technical and application challenges. Many research works have reported biomedical devices and self-powered applications for healthcare, along with various strategies to improve the monitoring time of self-powered devices or to eliminate the dependence on electrochemical batteries. However, none of these works have especially assessed the development and application of healthcare devices in an African context. This article provides a comprehensive review of self-powered devices in the biomedical research field, introduces their applications for healthcare, evaluates their status in Africa by providing a thorough review of existing biomedical device initiatives and available financial and scientific cooperation institutions in Africa for the biomedical research field, and highlights general challenges for implementing self-powered biomedical devices and particular challenges related to developing countries. The future perspectives of the aforementioned research field are provided, as well as an architecture for improving this research field in developing countries. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-471d5261813440f2a6529e725292aa4f2024-01-10T15:08:50ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202023-12-0124116310.3390/s24010163Survey on Energy Harvesting for Biomedical Devices: Applications, Challenges and Future Prospects for African CountriesDjakou Nekui Olivier0Wei Wang1Cheng Liu2Zhixia Wang3Bei Ding4Tianjin Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Dynamics and Control, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, ChinaTianjin Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Dynamics and Control, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, ChinaTianjin Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Dynamics and Control, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, ChinaTianjin Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Dynamics and Control, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, ChinaTianjin Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Dynamics and Control, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, ChinaSelf-powered biomedical devices, which are the new vision of Internet Of Things (IOT) healthcare, are facing many technical and application challenges. Many research works have reported biomedical devices and self-powered applications for healthcare, along with various strategies to improve the monitoring time of self-powered devices or to eliminate the dependence on electrochemical batteries. However, none of these works have especially assessed the development and application of healthcare devices in an African context. This article provides a comprehensive review of self-powered devices in the biomedical research field, introduces their applications for healthcare, evaluates their status in Africa by providing a thorough review of existing biomedical device initiatives and available financial and scientific cooperation institutions in Africa for the biomedical research field, and highlights general challenges for implementing self-powered biomedical devices and particular challenges related to developing countries. The future perspectives of the aforementioned research field are provided, as well as an architecture for improving this research field in developing countries.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/1/163Africabiomedical researchbiomedical research fundingenergy harvestingself-powered biomedical devices |
| spellingShingle | Djakou Nekui Olivier Wei Wang Cheng Liu Zhixia Wang Bei Ding Survey on Energy Harvesting for Biomedical Devices: Applications, Challenges and Future Prospects for African Countries Sensors Africa biomedical research biomedical research funding energy harvesting self-powered biomedical devices |
| title | Survey on Energy Harvesting for Biomedical Devices: Applications, Challenges and Future Prospects for African Countries |
| title_full | Survey on Energy Harvesting for Biomedical Devices: Applications, Challenges and Future Prospects for African Countries |
| title_fullStr | Survey on Energy Harvesting for Biomedical Devices: Applications, Challenges and Future Prospects for African Countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Survey on Energy Harvesting for Biomedical Devices: Applications, Challenges and Future Prospects for African Countries |
| title_short | Survey on Energy Harvesting for Biomedical Devices: Applications, Challenges and Future Prospects for African Countries |
| title_sort | survey on energy harvesting for biomedical devices applications challenges and future prospects for african countries |
| topic | Africa biomedical research biomedical research funding energy harvesting self-powered biomedical devices |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/1/163 |
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