Sweat Glands as a Novel Molecular Communication Infrastructure for the IoBNT

The Internet of Bio-Nano Things is a promising technology to reduce turnover and increase resolution of medical data collection. Therefore, tiny devices, so-called Nano Machines (NMs) are placed inside the human body, where the collect, process and transmit information to devices outside the human body. Interfaces between in-body and the external electrical domain are crucial to the realization of this technology. In this paper, we propose sweat glands, a pre-existing infrastructure, as a novel interface through which NMs can transmit information from the inside to the outside of the human body. We provide a detailed mathematical model of the envisioned communication system and evaluate its communication performance using different types of detectors (e.g., Neural Network based detector).