Compliant lightweight non-invasive standalone “Marine Skin” tagging system

Abstract

Marine sensory tags: a non-invasive solution A cost-effective multi-sensory tag system has been developed by integrating wireless communication, high performance physical sensors and conformal packaging for marine research. A collaborative team led by Prof Muhammad Hussain from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia designs a non-invasive, wireless, lightweight epidermal multisensory tag with long deployment lifetime for marine research applications. To show the non-invasive and lightweight features of the “Marine Skin” tags, they test their long term temperature, pressure, salinity and their cross-sensitivity on the crustaceans in Red Sea water for more than 20 days. The sensory tags can be tailored for a diversity of animals of irregular size and shape due to the non-invasiveness and conformality of the functional circuits and packaging materials. They enable cost-effective solutions for long term monitoring and measuring.