Future Doctors May Suggest to Fit GPS Inside Human Body

Technology has made possible what was an unachievable dream a few years back. Scientists have taken the art of body enhancement to extreme levels and they have started installing GPS trackers with low frequency which can be tracked wirelessly through mobile and other related electronic devices inside the human body.

A recent research has been led by Professor Dina Katabi at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), wherein the team reported the development of a GPS system that has the ability to track the inner workings of a human body. The method is known as ReMix that uses low-power wireless signals on implants instigated into the body, which allows their exact location to be found, whenever they move. They were firstly required to evolve a wireless system that function without using the batteries or other power sources. The GPS tracker transmits the signals from outside the body rather than producing its own signals. This posed additional challenges due to multiple reflections bouncing off a body. They were able to design a diode that separates unwanted signals and lets them measure the ones they want. ReMix has the potential to one day assist doctors in proton therapy by pinpointing the exact location of tumors. While ReMix is not yet ready for clinical testing, resultantly its researchers pursue their run to improve it. "One of the roadblocks has been wireless communication to a device and its continuous localisation. 'ReMix' makes a leap in this direction by showing that the wireless component of implantable devices may no longer be the bottleneck," quoted by Romit Roy Choudhury, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Illinois, who was not involved in the research. The team has also presented their paper at the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM) in Budapest, Turkey, in the preceding week.

By: Anuja Arora

Content: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180820085158.htm