ABSTRACT
Biosensors hold considerable potential for real-time health care applications due to their ultra-high specificity, portability, cost-effectiveness, and low power requirements. The advancements in biosensors technology, such as wearable electronics, smart sensors, Internet-of-Things based artificial skin, and labs on chip-based biosensor devices, were expected to become more rationalized as they blend the sensing of human health conditions into a wearer’s daily life. The acceptance of these biosensors by the medical community will solely depend on the approach that boosts the cost-effectiveness, accessibility, and reliability of sensor devices. These require extensive research with the choice of sensor materials and analytes, fabricating them in a tiny module, validation in human testing, and the clinical relevancy of sensor information. Provided with the competitive research and tremendous commercial value rendered in advanced health care diagnostics through biosensors, we anticipate that exciting new developments will launch in the near future.
In this book chapter, we provide an overview of the key advances reported in wearable, flexible, smart biosensors and discuss their potential in sensitivity and reliability. In particular, we discuss the materials/components used for the advanced health care diagnostic devices with the challenges involved with the productization in the relevance of health monitoring. This chapter includes discussion on future research and commercialization prospects, highlights existing bottlenecks, and offers perspectives on the exciting research area “Advanced Biomedical Device Technology”.
