Grant: Collaborative Research and Development Grants

The primary purpose of this NSERC - Collaborative Research and Development Grant (CRD) is to conduct scientific research to develop a commercially available physiological biosensor to monitor cardiac function during physical exertion in humans under harsh environmental conditions (eg. hypoxia, high temperature, extreme exercise) and in ""harms way"" (military operations, safety and security, mining, oil and gas industry, and other stressful occupations). The physiological biosensor will be integrated into a remote tracking platform and will use tri-axial accelerometer technology to record the seismic activity of the heart. This technique is called seismocardiography (SCG), and it has the ability to record all mechanical events of the cardiac cycle of the heart. This technology can also be used in applied and clinical biomedical research. This research project will be conducted in the faculties of Kinesiology and Health Studies at the University of Regina, and in Computer Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan. The biosensor will be made in Canada and sold commercially globally.