In this chapter we present two innovative contributions derived by the System-on-Chip (SoC) approach combining standard microelectronic technologies with the life and geo-sciences. The former regards a SoC radar sensor for contactless cardiopulmonary monitoring. The latter focuses on a SoC radiometer for temperature remote sensing. For both micro-sensors we report the framework and motivation, theoretical concepts, current results, and the future direction of ongoing research by the authors.

Inspec keywords: microsensors; system-on-chip; temperature measurement; remote sensing; radiofrequency integrated circuits; radiometers

Other keywords: microelectronic technology; life sciences; SoC radiometer; SoC radar sensor; contactless cardiopulmonary monitoring; system-on-chip approach; geosciences; system-on-chip RF sensors; microsensors; temperature remote sensing

Subjects: Microwave integrated circuits; Microsensors and nanosensors; System-on-chip