Rev.

08-2024-003
Your shortcut to next-gen, non-invasive electrochemical sensors ......................................... 3
Sensit Wearable Development Kit ......................................................................................... 5
Sensit Wearable is powered by the EmStat Pico Core chip ................................................... 6
The Sensit Wearable works with MethodSCRIPT™ ............................................................... 7
Measurement Specifications ................................................................................................. 8
Potentiostat Specifications .................................................................................................... 9
EIS Accuracy Contour Plot .................................................................................................. 10
Other Specifications ............................................................................................................ 11
PSTrace software ................................................................................................................ 12
Software Development Kits for .NET ................................................................................... 14
PStouch: App for Android ................................................................................................... 15
Other resources .................................................................................................................. 15

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The Sensit Wearable is a
groundbreaking device designed to
enhance the research, development,
and validation of wearable
biosensors. This lightweight
instrument, weighing just 10 grams,
is battery-powered, wireless, and
fully programmable. Sensit Wearable with mounting bracket

The Sensit Wearable supports the The Development Kit comes with
following electrochemical techniques: accessories that allows you to attach the
Sensit Wearable to any electrochemical
▪ Linear Sweep Voltammetry LSV (bio)sensor that works with one or two
▪ Cyclic Voltammetry CV Working Electrodes, a Reference Electrode
▪ Differential Pulse Voltammetry DPV (RE) and Counter Electrode (CE).
▪ Square Wave Voltammetry SWV The RE and CE can also be combined in a
2-electrode configuration.
▪ Normal Pulse Voltammetry NPV
▪ Chronoamperometry CA
▪ MultiStep Amperometry MA
▪ Pulsed Amp. Detection PAD
▪ Mixed Mode MM
▪ Open Circuit Potentiometry OCP
▪ Impedance spectroscopy EIS
at fixed frequency or frequency scan
vs
o fixed potential
o scanning potential See page 5 for an overview of available
o time adapters and options to make a
connection to your sensor, skin patch or
electrochemical cell.

Key specifications
▪ dc-potential range -1.2 V to +2 V
▪ compliance voltage -2.0 V to +2.3 V
▪ maximum current ±3 mA
▪ current resolution 0.006% of range (5.5 pA on 100 nA range)
▪ potentiostat interface 2x WE, 1x CE, 1x RE
▪ ac-amplitude range 1 mV to 0.25 V rms, or 0.708 V p-p
▪ EIS frequency range 0.016 Hz to 200 kHz

▪ communication USB-C and Bluetooth 5.0 Low Energy

▪ charging USB-C and wireless

▪ battery life multiple days depending on script
▪ internal storage 14 MB, equivalent to >450k datapoints
See page 9 for more detailed specifications.

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The Sensit Wearable can be used directly The internal re-chargeable 50 mAh battery
with our PSTrace software for research, or allows for 2 hours of continuous
PStouch for Android and controlled like measurements. Using its deep-sleep mode
any other lab potentiostat. in a script, its battery life can be extended
to days or even weeks.
No programming skills are required to The Sensit Wearable can be programmed
start running measurements. to wake up and run a measurement at
certain intervals, or when tapping it.
See page 11 for more information about
the battery.

The powerful and versatile MethodSCRIPT The second working electrode (WE2)
communications protocol allows for writing functions as a Bipotentiostat, where the
scripts to run measurements over a longer potential of the second working electrode
period and go in to a deep-sleep state is biased versus the first working electrode
when the instrument is idle. (WE1) or at a fixed potential. Both working
The raw or processed data can be stored electrodes are recorded simultaneously in
on the internal mass storage and be the Bipotentiostat mode.
retrieved via USB or Bluetooth for further
analysis. The Bipotentiostat mode is supported for
See page 7 for more information. all techniques, excluding EIS and OCP.

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The Development Kit includes: Also in the box:

▪ Sensit Wearable ▪ USB stick with PSTrace software

▪ Sensit Wearable Development for Windows (see page 11)
Board ▪ Manual (hardcopy)
▪ Velcro Strap with mounting ▪ Example skin patches
bracket and universal connector
▪ 2 Sensit Wearable mounting
brackets
▪ USB-C cable
▪ 1 m cell cable with 2 mm banana
pins
▪ Set of 5 croc clips
▪ Dummy Cell
▪ Connectors for screen-printed
electrodes (SPE)

The example patches from our partners

Lohmann and Screentec illustrate how the
Sensit Wearable can be integrated in a
bespoke skin patch design.

Two example mounting brackets for

integration with your patch design.
Also available as 3D STEP files.

Development board for easy

connecting to Sensit Wearable
pogo pins

Velcro strap with mounting bracket

and universal connector 1 meter cell cable with
croc clips

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At the heart of the Sensit Wearable is our The on-board MethodSCRIPT parser on
EmStat Pico Core potentiostat chip. the EmStat Pico Core allows for using the
AduCM356 as a generic potentiostat for
use with any type of electrochemical
sensor or biosensor. MethodSCRIPT
allows you to use the full potential of the
AduCM356 without reading its datasheets
or touching a compiler. The human-
readable MethodSCRIPT can be generated
with PSTrace for Windows. You can also
make use of the extensive MethodSCRIPT
documentation with many code examples
The EmStat Pico Core is a joint
available.
development by PalmSens BV and Analog
Devices Inc., based on the ADuCM356 and
More information:
powered by the MethodSCRIPT™ protocol
▪ EmStat Pico Core - PalmSens
from PalmSens.
▪ PSTrace - PalmSens
▪ ADuCM356 - Analog Devices Inc.
The ADuCM356 is an ultralow power,
mixed-signal microcontroller based on the
Arm® Cortex™-M3 processor. The device
features current, voltage, and impedance
measurement capability.

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The MethodSCRIPT™ scripting language
is designed to integrate our instruments
and potentiostat (modules) effortlessly in
your hardware setup, product, or
experiment.

MethodSCRIPT gives you full control over

your potentiostat. The simple script
language is parsed on-board the
instrument and allows for running all
supported electrochemical techniques,
making it easy to combine different
measurements and other tasks.

▪ Use of variables
▪ (Nested) loops and
conditional logic support
▪ Entering deep-sleep mode
▪ Configuring wake-up
triggers
▪ User code during a
measurement iteration
▪ Exact timing control
▪ Simple math operations on
variables (add, sub, mul, div)
▪ Logging results to internal
storage
▪ and many more…

MethodSCRIPT is parsed on-board the instrument. No DLLs or

other type of code libraries are required for using MethodSCRIPT™

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The following table shows Sensit Wearable
limits for some technique-specific
parameters, when using PSTrace for
Windows or PStouch for Android. Some of
these limits can be exceeded when using a
customized MethodSCRIPT.

Parameter Min Max

▪ Conditioning time 0 4000 s

All ▪ Deposition time 0 4000 s
techniques
(unless ▪ Equilibration time 0 4000 s
otherwise
specified) 1 000 000
▪ N data points 3 (> 100 days at 10 s
interval)

▪ NPV ▪ Scan rate 0.02 mV/s (0.280 mV step) 5 V/s (10 mV step)
▪ DPV ▪ Pulse time 1 ms 300 ms

▪ SWV ▪ Frequency 1 Hz 500 Hz

▪ LSV
▪ Scan rate 0.02 mV/s (0.280 mV step) 5 V/s (10 mV step)
▪ CV

▪ Interval time 1 ms 10 s

▪ Pulse time 1 ms 1s
▪ PAD
1 000 000
▪ N data points 3 (> 100 days at 10 s
interval)

▪ Interval time 1 ms 10 s
▪ CA
▪ OCP ▪ Run time 1 ms > 10 days

▪ N cycles 1 20000

▪ MM ▪ N levels 1 255
▪ MA ▪ Level switching
~10 ms (typical) -
overhead time

▪ Interval time 1 ms 300 s

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 General
▪ dc-potential range -1.2 V to +2 V
▪ compliance voltage -2.0 V to +2.3 V
▪ maximum current ±3 mA
▪ max. data acquisition rate 1000 samples/s

Potentiostat (controlled potential mode)

▪ applied potential resolution 395 µV
▪ applied potential accuracy ≤ 0.2% ±1 mV offset
100 nA, 1 uA, 6 uA, 13 uA, 25 uA,
▪ current ranges
50 uA, 100 uA, 200 uA, 1 mA, 5 mA
▪ measured current resolution 0.006% of CR (5.5 pA on 100 nA range)
▪ measured current accuracy < 0.5% of current ±0.1% of range

FRA / EIS (impedance measurements)

▪ frequency range 16 mHz to 200 kHz
▪ ac-amplitude range 1 mV to 250 mV rms, or 708 mV p-p

Electrometer
▪ electrometer amplifier input > 1 TΩ // 10 pF
▪ bandwidth 250 kHz

Bipotentiostat
1. WE2 at fixed potential (E offset vs RE1)
▪ modes
2. WE2 scanning (E offset vs WE1)

▪ max. potential WE2 ΔE(WE1) + ΔE(WE2) < 1.6 V 1

1
If your main WE1 is scanning from -0.5V to +0.5V, the WE2 can only have a maximum offset of 0.6V.

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Note
The accuracy contour plot was determined under lab conditions and should be used for reference
purposes. Please note that the true limits of an impedance measurement are influenced by all
components in the system, e.g. cables, the environment, and the cell.

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 Other
▪ housing 35 x 35 x 12 mm (including mounting bracket)
▪ weight ~10 g
6 pogo pins for:
▪ electrode connections
WE1, WE2, RE, CE, AUX, and ground
Varta CP 1240 A4
▪ battery UN 38.3 passed
relevant tests acc. IEC 62133 passed
50 mAh (at 0.2C from 4.2 V to 3.0 V at 20 °C)
▪ battery power capacity
or 0.2 Wh
off: 0.1 mW (75 days)
idle or measuring: 92 mW (2 hours)
sleep with Bluetooth
1 mW (7.5 days)
connected:
▪ power consumption
sleep without Bluetooth
0.3 mW (25 days)
connection:
sleep with 10 mV bias
4.44 mW (40 hours)
potential applied on WE1:
▪ communication USB-C and Bluetooth 5.0 low energy
USB-C or wireless
▪ charging
~2 hours for a full charge
▪ internal storage space 14 MB, equivalent to >450k datapoints
▪ status indicator (blue)
▪ indicators
▪ charge indicator (orange)

In this situation the Sensit Wearable is

programmed to sample current every 10
minutes for 500 ms, store the data and go
back to sleep mode. The battery life for this
scenario is:

(599.5/600 * 0.3 mW) +

(0.5/600 * 92 mW) = 0.38 mW

Battery life = 180 mWh / 0.38 mW = 470 h

or ~20 days

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PSTrace is designed to get the most out of
your instrument right after installation,
without going through a long learning
period.

The Analytical Mode is designed for use

with (bio)sensors and allows you to do ▪ Windows 8, 10 or 11
concentration determinations. Extensive ▪ 1 GHz 64-bit (x64) processor
▪ 4 GB RAM (64-bit)
help files and prompts guide the user
▪ Screen resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels
through a typical analysis.

Switch between plots if

curves with different units
are available.

Setup your measurement easily Click on a measurement Quickly toggle the

and get immediate feedback on for detailed information or visibility of curves or
validity of parameters. generating new curves. groups of curves.

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 Use the graphical
editor to draw the
equivalent circuit
or enter the CDC
directly.

▪ Concentration determination
▪ Advanced peak search algorithms
▪ Open your data in Origin and Excel with one click of a button
▪ Save all available curves, measurement data and methods to a single file
▪ Load measurements from the internal instrument storage
▪ Direct validation of method parameters
▪ Run custom MethodSCRIPTS™

▪ Excel
▪ Origin
▪ Matlab
▪ ZView

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Develop your own application in no time for
use with any PalmSens instrument or
potentiostat (module). Our SDKs are free of
charge.

There are three PalmSens Software

Development Kits (SDKs) for .NET. Each
SDK can be used with any of our
instruments or OEM potentiostat modules
to develop your own software. The SDK’s
come with a set of examples that shows
how to use the libraries. PalmSens SDKs
with examples are available for the
following .NET Frameworks:

▪ WinForms
▪ Xamarin (Android)
▪ WPF

▪ Connecting
▪ Running measurements and plotting data
▪ Manual control of the cell
▪ Accessing and processing measured data
▪ Analyzing and manipulating data
▪ Peak detection
▪ Equivalent Circuit Fitting on impedance data
▪ Saving and loading files

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PStouch features:
▪ Setting up and running measurements
▪ Loading and saving measured curves
▪ Analyzing and manipulating peaks
▪ Sharing measurement data directly via any service
like email or Dropbox
▪ Concentration determination by means of Standard
Addition or Calibration Curve
▪ Support for PalmSens accessories such as a
Multiplexer or Stirrer
▪ All method and curve files are fully compatible with
PSTrace software for Windows.

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Please do not hesitate to contact PalmSens for more
details: [email protected]

PalmSens BV
The Netherlands
www.palmsens.com

DISCLAIMER
The Sensit Wearable is not designed or certified as
a medical product.
Changes in specifications and typing errors reserved.
Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of
this document. However, no rights can be claimed by
the contents of this document.