This work presents a reconfigurable multi-sensor mobile interface architecture that is applicable to heterogeneous sensor applications and also easy to generate new types of combined services. The multi-sensor interface attributes compactness and flexibility to reconfigurable readout integrated circuits (ROICs) and migration of signal processing and computation burdens from a sensor tag to a smartphone. Two reconfigurable ROICs which were designed and fabricated in a 0.18-m CMOS process generate raw digital data from environmental and healthcare sensors. Their detected raw data are wirelessly sent to the smartphone where real-time calibration and post-processing are performed optimally for each sensor. In an application to industrial systems, an in-vehicle system prototype supporting combined monitoring services of air-quality and healthcare was integrated into a steering wheel cover and experimentally verified to provide real-time measurement of three environmental sensor signals and two healthcare physiological signals with the results displayed on a smartphone.
Index Terms-Multi-sensorinterface, reconfigurable readout circuits, in-vehicle monitoring, healthcare, air quality, mobile system, heterogeneous systems. in 2011, respectively. Since then, he has been with uMEDIX Inc., Seoul, Korea, where he is currently the Senior Research Engineer of Technology and R&D. Yun Young Choi received the M.E. degree in electrical engineering from the Chonnam University, Chonnam, Korea, in 2002, respectively. In 2000, he joined Hynix Inc., where he was involved in developing the Bluetooth Transceivers for GSM cellular phone applications. In 2006, he joined Samsung Electronics, where he developed the world-first LTE/WCDMA+GSM Transceivers for LTE phone applications. Since 2010, he has been with uMEDIX Inc., Seoul, Korea, where he is currently the Chief Technology Office of Technology and R&D, participating in developing biomedical devices and systems including bio-potential readout integrated circuits.