PRINTED & MEMS GAS SENSORS & SYSTEMS THE NEXT GENERATION OF SITUATIONAL AWARENESS - HEALTH

KWJ ENGINEERING, INC., 8430 CENTRAL AVENUE, STE. C, NEWARK, CA 94560-3457

11th Annual MEPTEC MEMS Technology Symposium

MEMS-enabled eHealth Revolution

MEMS and NEMS based applications for emerging healthcare off-body, on-body, and in-body

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 ; Holiday Inn San Jose, San Jose, California

Dr. Joseph R. Stetter,

President and Chief Technology Officer

KWJ Engineering Inc.and Spec Sensors LLC

Contact: E. F. Stetter VP/GM and CFO.

outline

• KWJ Engineering Inc.

• Societal changes [revolutions]

• Awareness – cities, people, devices

• Revolutions are brewing/continuing

• Abundance

• T sensors Universe

• Personal Medicine

• Personal power/awareness

• New markets in healthcare and related fields

• “app-cessories” and explosions in innovation.

• Wearable sensors – health, safety, security, sport, comfort,

• Technology perspectives

• Printed and MEMS technology – Process and products

Gas Sensors for New Applications • “Some day your cell phone will not only sense what is

happening to you but will also tell you what environment you are in” – cell phones need gas sensors

• Product Revolution through Printing Process • Screen Printed Electrochemical Sensor (SPEC SensorTM)

• Screen Printing significantly reduces size and cost • Top of the Line performance at a fraction of the cost

• Tiny, Ultra Thin sensors can go anywhere

• Operates on microwatts of power

• Ideal for wireless and energy harvesting applications

• Meets standards for any application – Industrial, consumer, medical, wireless, or battery-free/green

KWJ Engineering Inc.

• Innovative Solutions in Gas Detection since 1993 • Founded by Ken Johnson, formerly of GasTech (sold to Thermo Electron)

• Merged with Dr. Joseph R. Stetter in 2007

• Senior staff with 100’s of years combined experience in sensing

• Longstanding product lines combined with cutting edge sensor technology

• Vision: To improve health, human safety, security, and our environment by providing the next generation of advanced/quality detection products. • Smaller, lower power, less expensive, and ever-more-capable sensing platforms.

• Increased situational awareness in industrial, medical, and consumer markets.

• Competencies: Industry Leaders in advanced gas sensing technologies and custom solutions for monitoring and detection • Growth from 10 employees in 2007 to >30 today

• Products and Services – Distributed, OEM, and R&D Products. • Printed Electronics and MEMS for sensors and sensor platforms.

• Integration into sensing systems.

Facilities and Capabilities

• Advanced Facilities, Technology, Personnel • 9,000 sq ft R&D, Engineering/Manufacturing in CA

• Clean Room, Test and Environmental Chambers

• Sensor measurement and test systems

• Design, Prototype, Manufacture, Test on site

• Engineers with >150 yrs combined sensor experience

• World Class Collaborators include UC Berkeley (BSAC), Georgia Tech, Stanford Research Institute, U. of Washington, IIT, Oakland University, Wisconsin Lutheran College, private companies, & others

• Funders include NSF, NASA, NIH, DOD, Gas Technology Institute, other institutions, and Private & Strategic Partners

Opportunity - Vision

Camera

GPS PC

Safety

Situational Awareness Changes the Game

Disruptive Requirements:

• Extremely small, micro-nano

• High Performance

• Ultra low power – u-watts

• Inexpensive

• Reliable – Long life

• Hundreds of millions of units

• Medical/environmentally aware

Disruptive technology

Smartphone integration

Explosion of innovation

Market Trends Increased Capability in Smaller, Efficient Packages

Consumer

• Demand for Sensors and Smart Systems

• Mobile Health, Safety, Air Quality

• Connected/Smart Home

Industrial – Oil & Gas

• Wireless Sensors and Mesh Networks

• Portable, Distributed, integrated Systems

• Commercial/Residential Monitors - Legislation

Medical - Conformal

• Flexible, Integrated Systems

• Diagnostics, Breath Analysis

• Patient Monitoring

• Military, NASA

KWJ R&D and New Product Development – device/sensor driven

2. MEMS TCD Sensors Energy gases-CH4, H2, CO2,

1. Printed Gas Sensors [O2, CO & toxics

3. Ozone Generation/printed sources/micro-reactors

Figure 2. Planar ozone sources

Active projects at KWJ • Wearable Sensors

• wireless sensors/connectivity to gateway devices

• “appcessories” and smartphone applications

• across sports, fitness and wellbeing,

• home healthcare,

• remote patient monitoring,

• Personal medicine, vitals, breath, …

• and on-site professional healthcare markets

• Unique KWJ Technology

• Sensors for chlorinated HC, explosives

• Printed wearable sensors – air/O2, toxics

• MEMS wearable sensors – energy gases

• Micro-reactors for H2O disinfection.

• OEM systems that solve problems.

Current projects all have the

same Unifying Theme:

Gas/liquid sensors

Ultra low power/cost

Ultra small; Unique forms

Long Lifetime

Scalable manufacture

High performance

AWARENESS in CHEM-BIO

DIMENSIONS!

Disruptive Requirements:

• Extremely small

• High Performance

• Ultra low power – u-watts

• Inexpensive ownership

• Reliable – Long life

• Low/No Maintenance

• Hundreds of millions of units

• [KWJ SENSOR GOALS!!!]

Modern Cities - Situational Awareness – and Technology Nano-technology adds another dimension

• Bastions of culture, education, commerce, recreation, living.

• Challenges: transportation, communications, healthcare, safety

• Lifestyle demands: clean air, potable water, food, shelter and a myriad of services including Healthcare-related/shelter.

• Safety and security [man-made/natural] have become a global concern and traditional defense and response is not adequate.

• Science & Technology plays a major role in countering terrorism, advancing services, & making modern cities work.

• A safe, secure, aware, city will be the preferred place for business, commerce, recreation, and healthy living.. 1993 Kameido, Tokyo,

Japan Anthrax release

Tsunami, Dec. 2004, New York Times

2009 Sensors & Aging Populations - Netcarity Concept

2009

Sensors For Health, Safety, Security,

Awareness, ADLs, Comfort, Sport, Life.

• NO – asthma, breath analysis [15 M patients in US]

• CH4 – safety [55M meters NA]; 350 year supply;

• CO, CO2, O2, flow rate/volume – safety; metabolism

• Isoprene – cholesterol [11 M tests annually]

• H2/CO– neonatal jaundice, intestinal distress

• Isoprostane/CO – cyctic fibrosis/bronchitis

• H2S – peridontal disease; petrochemical safety

• Pollutant stressors: ethanol, O3, NOx, CO

• Vital signs; first responders, EMTs, ELDERLY,

• CO - pilots, divers, home inspectors, police, fire, first responders, boats, homes, auto, …safety/stress.

• H2 – hydrogen energy, safety, automotive;

• IAQ – CO2, T, RH-comfort/air quality index Awareness – smart sensors

Personalized safety, health, surveillance

Home, affordable, capable, low cost

Presymtomatic, diagnostic, compliant

BREATH, BODY NETWORK, ENVIRONMENT

[EXPLOSION OF INNOVATION-”APPCESSORIES”]

Fab of the Future – Chem/BioSensors

1852 M. Faraday basement lab

Modern MEMS Fab

Even if I could tell you what the

Fab of the future will look like,

you would be shocked, dubious,

and disbelieving! The merger of worlds and time!

When worlds/time collide! Chemistry

Physics

Biology

Engineering

Materials Science

[nano-technology]

Texas A&M, APS report; u-Tube U of Illinois report – 2103

http://www.plasticlogic.com/partnering/manufacturing/

Powerful temporal and spatial arrays of arrays of chem-bio sensor systems with pattern recognition.

DOGS DO IT !

Tiny, no cost, everything, fast, unambiguous?

Probe, sense, compute, communicate!

People want Answers not sensing!!!

Apps for – is it healthy? Is it Toxic?

Will it explode? Did I take my meds?

Do I need to see a doctor? Am I stressed?

Is the air quality ok here? How do I get out

of this fire area? Am I getting better? – and on and on…

KWJ, 8430 Central Ave., Newark CA 94560

• 3-D Printed Sensors & MEMS Sensors

• Wearable Chemical-/Bio-/Gas-Sensors • Ozone, CO, H2S, O2, CH4, combustible HCs, …

• Instruments – In-line , fixed, or Wearable

• Applications engineering

• Smart micro-nano Sensor Systems

• Lower Power, Cost, & Size

• Nano-Materials/Catalysts Development

• Micro-Reactors – scalable engineering.

• Sensor Characterization and Metrology

What Can We Develop/Measure for You?

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End of formal remarks

Acknowledgements: KWJ Team: Drs A.G. Shirke, B. Muelendyk, and

Engineers: M.W. Findlay, W. Brown, III, V. Patel, L. Ploense, D. Gaerlan,

G. Otoole, W. Escobar.

National Science Foundation, Award No. 1058563

National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging

Grant Award #1R43AG039196.