Intelligent plasters
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Toumaz Technology, a company working with researchers at Imperial College London, won the electronic award in the prestigious Institution of Engineering Technology Innovation Engineering Award for its Sensium ultra-low power wireless body monitoring system, better known as the ‘digital plaster'.
The disposable digital plaster sticks to a patient's chest and has an ultra-low power wireless sensor in a silicon chip attached to it, which monitors in realtime a range of vital signs like body temperature, respiration, heart and physical activity. Processed information can be instantly downloaded to a mobile phone for analysis.
Professor Christofer Toumazou, director of Imperial's Institute for Biomedical Engineering and chairman of Toumaz Technology, believes the digital plaster could cut down recovery times in hospitals by offering patients the benefits of being monitored in the comfort of their own home. “The digital plaster is a revolution in healthcare. It has real benefits for health professionals who, at the touch of a button, can monitor the vital statistics of a recovering patient,” said Professor Toumazou.
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Posted: Tuesday 9 February 2010