Gil Zimmerman

Concept sketch for arm band style sensor array. The band would be flexible and change shape in response to muscle flexion. The inspiration for the location was a the blood pressure cuff of a sphygmamonometer. Could possibly be used to read blood pressure with sensitive sensors and adequate filtering. Arm bands can be cool - ask the NBA.

Rough location of sensors and ideas of what they might be.

Sketch of how resistive wire could be laced throughout the armband. They could be continuous throughout the band or segmented into many circuits to give indication of how different parts of the band or moving simultaneously.

First drawing of sensor band on upper arm. Same principals could be used elsewhere, though.

First page out of the project notebook. The idea hinges on the ability to correlate biometric sensor data to the less-understood, more loosely-defined physiological condition of "stress". The only accepted quantifier of stress is to measure cortisol levels from saliva in the tongue. The proof-of-concept phase for this project depends on gathering data from multiple sensors (HR, BP, ECG, VO2, Electroconductivity ie sweat, etc) from testers while sampling their cortisol levels throughout the trial period. Big-Data analysis techniques and statistical annealing may be useful in finding correlations between certain biometrics and stress while eliminating others as irrelevant. This would likely reduce the cost of the final product by removing needless sensors.