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HEALTH-MONITORING DEVICES

A personalized view of excreta

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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

    Damir Brdjanovic

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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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Brdjanovic, D. A personalized view of excreta. Nat Biomed Eng 4, 581–582 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-020-0575-0

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