Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Biologging is a scientific endeavor that studies the environment and animals within it by outfitting the latter with sensors of their dynamics as they roam freely in their natural habitats. As wearable technologies advance for the monitoring of human health, it may be instructive to reflect on the successes and failures of biologging in field biology over the past few decades. Several lessons may be of value. Physiological sensors can "encode" for a wider number of states than the one explicitly targeted, although the limits of this are debatable. The combination of orthogonal sensors turns out to be critical to delivering a high value data set. Sensor fusion and engineering for longevity are also important for success. This Perspective highlights successful strategies for biologging that hold promise for human health monitoring.
Source: ACS Sensors
Institutions: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Australian Institute of Marine Science, University of California, Los Angeles, University of California System, Swansea University
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $5,000
OpenAlex ID: W2977399028