An increasing number of medical diagnostics, comfort, entertainment, and sports applications are making use of capacitive sensor systems in and around the body. These sensor systems should work as small distributed units that can collect data over a long period of time. So, ultra low power electronics are a major challenge in these applications.
"Ultra Low Power Capacitive Sensor Interfaces describes the design and theory of ultra low power capacitive sensor interfaces. The book's major asset is the realization of a very low power generic sensor interface chip, that is adaptable to a broad range of capacitive sensors.
Generic architectures for autonomous sensors.- Generic Sensor Interface Chip.- Algorithm for optimal configuration settings.- Physical Activity Monitoring System.- Conclusion.