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HEALTH-MONITORING DEVICES

A personalized view of excreta

Nature Biomedical Engineering volume 4, pages 581–582 (2020)Cite this article

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Biomarkers of health and disease in urine and stool can be longitudinally tracked with a ‘smart’ toilet incorporating biometric identification, pressure and motion sensors, urinalysis strips and a uroflowmeter.

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Fig. 1: A toilet system for personalized health monitoring via the analysis of excreta.

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  1. Department of Water Supply, Sanitation and Environmental Engineering, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands

    Damir Brdjanovic

  2. Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands

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Damir Brdjanovic is the inventor of the eSOS Smart Toilet and co-inventor of the MEDiLOO and DEMOS concepts.

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