The academics of Abdullah Gül University (AGU) developed a new product, one of a kind, which bears the potential to ease patients’ lives and contribute to the national economy. This new product allows the processing of EOG (eye), ECG (heart), and EMG (muscle) signals by a single card, thanks to an integrated sensor. For the first time, with the same sensor, robotic prostheses can be developed for patients with limb loss, and ALS patients who cannot control parts of their body can commend their computers with eye movements. Another feature of the sensor enables users to set up their own ECG system at home and monitor muscle activity in any part of their body. Additionally, developers can use the integrated sensor to control a drone with eye movements. The new sensor has already been exported to Israel, India, and Spain and contributes to the national economy.
This biosensor, which allows the processing of different signals of EOG, ECG, and EMG, on a single card, is called “MaM Sense” and has been developed by “MaM High Tech,” a company established by Levent Yavuz, Research Assistant at AGU’s Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and involved in various sectors, i.e., biomedical devices, defense industry, power systems, and artificial intelligence applications.
AGU’s Electrical and Electronics Engineering students, Orhan Demirci, Ahmet Faruk Aslantaş, and Mustafa Turhan, were part of company founder RA Levent Yavuz’s engineering team developing the sensor. Vice Rector Prof. Bülent Yılmaz and Assoc. Prof. Ahmet Önen also supported the product's development phase.
Being the most economical sensor with the listed features available on the global market, it is also the first integrated sensor to make the acquisition and monitoring of biosignals possible in Turkey and the world.
The sensor already has use cases in the production of robotic arms for people who has lost their limb. It will also be used in various research activities and in future products allowing paralyzed patients to communicate with eye movements and ALS patients to control computers with their eyes. Furthermore, users will be able to establish their own ECG system at home, monitor muscular activity in any part of the body with the EMG feature, and even pilot a drone with eye movements.
The sensor can work independently of the operating system and has been designed to be compatible with microcontrollers. Nonetheless, the company behind the card also developed compatible open-source software and made it available on its website.
In the first week of its production, “MaM Sense” was exported to chiefly Israel and some other countries such as India and Spain. In this regard, the product will positively affect the national economy.
