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Wearable sweat sensing for prolonged, semicontinuous, and nonobtrusive health monitoring
Author(s) -
Moonen Emma J.M.,
Haakma Jelte R.,
Peri Elisabetta,
Pelssers Eduard,
Mischi Massimo,
den Toonder Jaap M.J.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2688-268X
pISSN - 2688-3988
DOI - 10.1002/viw.20200077
Subject(s) - sweat , wearable computer , biomarker , wearable technology , scope (computer science) , computer science , health professionals , health care , medicine , biology , embedded system , biochemistry , programming language , economics , economic growth
Together with the upcoming market for wearable consumer technologies, noninvasive and continuous health monitoring has become a new trend in the healthcare landscape. In recent years, significant research has been targeted toward the development of wearable sensing devices for monitoring biomarker levels in nonobtrusively accessible biofluids such as tears, urine, saliva, and sweat. Sweat could be an ideal candidate for prolonged, semicontinuous, and nonobtrusive health monitoring because sweat is a continuously accessible biofluid containing physiologically and metabolically rich information. However, challenges still remain toward commercialized wearable sweat‐sensing devices, and the correlation between biomarker concentrations in sweat with health conditions still seems to be not fully understood. This review article aims to display the full scope of sweat sensing for health monitoring, starting from the fundamentals of human sweat, via modeling of the sweat gland physiology toward wearable sweat‐sensing devices in research and commercialization efforts. Finally, the challenges of sweat sensing that still have to be overcome toward the utilization of sweat sensing in the conventional healthcare settings are discussed.

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