SMARTIES

Medical implants are more and more widespread in modern society. Elder people, the most beneficiary of them, are also more exposed to other therapeutic procedures. Smart implants will ease their everyday life. The talk will discuss the development of a suitable and generic multidisciplinary framework, with a material and electromagnetic focused approach, for smart and multifunctional medical devices for body-centric communication system. The chance to make use of (metallic) alloys, widely used as medical implants, for new devices with important additional functionalities constitutes the main challenges of the research. The developed devices, potentially compatible with load-bearing orthopaedic uses, target advanced functions due to the presence of printed antenna for intra-body communication. Such concealed architectural and mechanical structures implanted inside the body, can be exploited in different scenarios: communication with an external base station eliminating the necessity of the human being exposure to additional manual screening or reducing social differentiation / discrimination, e.g., when people with implants need to be distinctly scanned at the airport or excluded from Magnetic Resonance Imaging, respectively.

There has been rapid research and development in technologies related to Electrical, Electronics, Communication, Computation and its allied areas during the past few years and the way it impacted human lives. The scope for further development always exists and this conference would provide the opportunity to discuss the state of art research contributions and to explore the avenues for future work. This conference is aimed to bring researchers, practicing engineers, faculty members and students from across the globe to a common platform to share their research ideas that would pave way to attain solution to various real time problems. Many eminent researchers from different countries are expected to participate and interact with the young students and budding researchers of various institutions who are expected to be a part of this conference.

In conjunction with the IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health Applications, Systems, and Engineering Technologies IEEE/ACM CHASE 2021