Fixed optic sensor system and distributed sensor network
First Claim
1. A distributed sensor network comprising:
- a first group of miniaturized integrated sensors predisposed about a first sample region, each sensor designated by a unique sensor identification tag belonging to the first group;
a second group of miniaturized integrated sensors predisposed about a second sample region, each sensor designated by a unique sensor identification tag belonging to the second group;
first and second local processing systems communicably linked to said first and second groups of sensors for receiving data relating to said first and second sample regions; and
a centralized processing system communicably linked to said first and second processing systems via a network.
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Abstract
A fixed optic sensor system (200) comprising a sensor system (210), and electronic sub-system (205) and a communications means (215). The system can be used for detecting the presence of various sample (236) properties and in that regard has widespread application by leveraging off various miniaturized sensor configurations including surface plasmon resonance (50), fluorescence (80), light transmission (125) and others (150). In one embodiment, the communications means (215) is a wireless transmitter/receiver. In another embodiment, a hand held instrument (358) can be used on-site and communicates with the sensor (350) to receive sample (352) related data and transmit it to a remote processing system (370) for further analysis. In yet another embodiment, a hand held instrument (403) has a plurality of cardiac marker binding ligands (400) deposited on the sensor/sample interface providing a medical diagnosis and point-of-care device (403).
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1. A distributed sensor network comprising:
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a first group of miniaturized integrated sensors predisposed about a first sample region, each sensor designated by a unique sensor identification tag belonging to the first group; a second group of miniaturized integrated sensors predisposed about a second sample region, each sensor designated by a unique sensor identification tag belonging to the second group; first and second local processing systems communicably linked to said first and second groups of sensors for receiving data relating to said first and second sample regions; and a centralized processing system communicably linked to said first and second processing systems via a network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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