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Hornbill: A Portable, Touchless, and Battery-Free Electrochemical Bio-tag for Multi-pesticide Detection

  • Guorong He
  • , Yaxiong Xie
  • , Chao Zheng
  • , Longlong Zhang
  • , Qi Wu
  • , Wenyan Zhang
  • , Dan Xu
  • , Xiaojiang Chen
  • Northwest University China
  • Shaanxi International Joint Research Centre for the Battery-Free Internet of Things
  • Xi'an Advanced Battery-Free Sensing and Computing Technology International Science and Technology Cooperation Base
  • Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

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4 Scopus citations

Abstract

Pesticide overuse poses significant risks to human health and environmental integrity. Addressing the limitations of existing approaches, which struggle with the diversity of pesticide compounds, portability issues, and environmental sensitivity, this paper introduces Hornbill. A wireless and battery-free electrochemical bio-tag that integrates the advantages of NFC technology with electrochemical biosensors for portable, precise, and touchless multi-pesticide detection. The basic idea of Hornbill is comparing the distinct electrochemical responses between a pair of biological receptors and different pesticides to construct a unique set of feature fingerprints to make multi-pesticide sensing feasible. To incorporate this idea within small NFC tags, we reengineer the electrochemical sensor, spanning the antenna to the voltage regulator. Additionally, to improve the system's sensitivity and environmental robustness, we carefully design the electrodes by combining microelectrode technology and materials science. Experiments with 9 different pesticides show that Hornbill achieves a mean accuracy of 93% in different concentration environments and its sensitivity and robustness surpass that of commercial electrochemical sensors.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationACM MobiCom 2024 - Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages1283-1298
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)9798400704895
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 4 2024
Event30th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM MobiCom 2024 - Washington, United States
Duration: Nov 18 2024Nov 22 2024

Publication series

NameACM MobiCom 2024 - Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

Conference

Conference30th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM MobiCom 2024
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWashington
Period11/18/2411/22/24

Keywords

  • NFC
  • electrochemical measurement
  • embedded systems
  • microelectrode technology
  • pesticide sensing

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