HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES – SMART ELECTRONICS
Yannic Le Moullec
Combines electronics and health applications
Yannick Le Moullec from the Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) along with his team are applying various aspects of electronics to the health applications, as well as a few others. The results could spark a great deal of change in the health and environmental applications.
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n ageing population and the preservation of the environment are two major phenomena influencing our societies today, and presumably for the next few decades. Globally in 2020, there were more people aged 60 and over than there were children under the age of 5, and by 2050, people over 60 may account for up to 22% of the population. This creates major challenges for health and social care systems, which could potentially result in advanced monitoring and assistive devices becoming a necessity, not only for the elderly, but also for their caregivers. Le Moullec suggests that “We can get an idea of the trends by considering various growth forecasts. The medical sensors market is expected to grow 7.8% from 2020 to 2030, and thee environmental sensors market is expected to rise by more than 9.25% between 2021 and 2026 alone, reaching 2.7 billion US dollars by that time.” The French-born Le Moullec has worked in TalTech since 2013, ini-
The idea is to measure properties of the human body using algorithms and electronics by applying a particular electrical signal to the individual that we want to examine. Estonian Centre of Excellence in ICT Research
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