Xerox has confirmed production of a new form of a data-retaining sensor which has the potential to act as an authentication tool in the health care industry, verifying or negating the identity of everything from patients to even test strips for blood glucose monitors for diabetics. The sensor, called “Biometric Sensor,” is designed by researchers at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center and will be used in medical devices such as insulin pumps that are implanted under the skin.
Xerox has confirmed production of a new form of a data-retaining sensor which has the potential to act as an authentication tool in the health care industry, verifying or negating the identity of everything from patients to even test strips for blood glucose monitors for diabetics. Xerox has been developing this so-called 'Printed Memory' technology for over five years and uses 3D printing, ink and thin circuitry printed to a PET substrate to produce the sensors.