IoT- Implantable Chips for Smart Healthcare

Tetraplegics, amputees and stroke patients could be among those to benefit from a low-power microchip that can be implanted in the brain and send signals wirelessly to implants and prosthetics. Developed at NTU, the chip is claimed to be 100 times more efficient than existing devices to process and decode the signals sent and received by the brain.

In this talk you will learn directly from Dr Arindam Basu, Team leader and Assistant Professor at School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, about the innovation - a very versatile smart chip that can process data, analyse patterns and spot the difference. The device could also be useful for non-medical applications, such as Internet of Things-enabled devices.

The team comprising Dr. Basu, Dr. Yi (who holds a PhD in EE from NTU), and Mr. Patil (a graduate of IIT Mumbai) plan to commercialize their device through a spin-off at the end of this year targeting IoT applications in animal husbandry and predictive maintenance.