Mobile Application for Impedance-Based Biomimetic Sensor Readout

Author

Broeders, J. ; Croux, D. ; Peeters, M. ; Beyens, T. ; Duchateau, S. ; Cleij, T.J. ; Wagner, Paul ; Thoelen, Ronald ; De Ceuninck, W.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Mater. Res., Hasselt Univ., Diepenbeek, Belgium

Volume

13

Issue

7

fYear

2013

fDate

Jul-13

Firstpage

2659

Lastpage

2665

Abstract

A new method is presented for smartphone-based impedance spectroscopy, especially fine-tuned for biomimetic sensor readout. Complete user control is given by means of an app while the on-board audio hardware of the smartphone or tablet PC is used to perform impedance measurements. This considerably limits the required external hardware. Disposable test strips can be mounted for convenient readout of various sensors. The system is verified on passive components and a synthetic molecularly imprinted polymer histamine sensor. The prototype design could prove a useful step toward the development of home-diagnostics biosensing applications.

Keywords

biomimetics; biosensors; computerised instrumentation; electric impedance measurement; notebook computers; polymers; smart phones; disposable test strip; home-diagnostics biosensing application; impedance measurement; impedance spectroscopy; impedance-based biomimetic sensor readout; mobile application; on-board audio hardware; passive component; smartphone; synthetic molecularly imprinted polymer histamine sensor; tablet PC; user control; Biomimetic sensors; impedance spectroscopy; molecular imprinting; smartphone;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Sensors Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1530-437X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSEN.2013.2256346

Filename

6493374