Smart Bandage wins IEEE MECAP’16 Best Paper Award
Associate Professor Atif Shamim (right) and Ph.D. student Mohammed Farooqui produced Smart Bandage, a medical device capable of wirelessly communicating to healthcare providers the parameters and abnormalities in wounds’ recovery process.
A cutting-edge, flexible and low-cost technology called Smart Bandage that will help to redesign health care systems was produced by KAUST researchers and won the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Middle East Conference on Antennas and Propagation (MECAP’16) Best Paper Award in Beirut, Lebanon, in September 2016.
Atif Shamim, associate professor of electrical engineering and principal investigator of the University’s Integrated Microwaves Packaging Antennas & Circuits Technology (IMPACT) Lab, and Ph.D. student Mohammed Farooqui crafted Smart Bandage, a medical device capable of wirelessly communicating to healthcare providers the parameters and abnormalities in wounds’ recovery process.
“More and more we live in a smart world. Wearable sensors are being developed to monitor various physiological parameters of the human body, including temperature, heart rate, electrocardiograms and blood pressure. Chronic wound monitoring is one area of human health that surprisingly has received relatively little attention from the research community,” Shamim said.
Smart Bandage has three types of compact inkjet-printed sensors applied on a disposable bandage. In this way, bleeding, pressure and pH levels in the wounds are monitored and immediately communicated via the inkjet-printed loop antenna to a remote medical staff member’s smartphone. With a patient’s case history one buzz away and accessible from anywhere at any time, Shamim’s Smart Bandage provides much convenience in patients’ lives.
Following expressions of interest by several pharmaceutical companies, Shamim plans to develop marketable products on a large scale, making the Smart Bandage technology a new, cutting-edge technology for wearable sensors for healthcare applications.
A cutting-edge, flexible and low-cost technology called Smart Bandage that will help to redesign health care systems was produced by KAUST researchers and won the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Middle East Conference on Antennas and Propagation (MECAP’16) Best Paper Award in Beirut, Lebanon, in September 2016.
Atif Shamim, associate professor of electrical engineering and principal investigator of the University’s Integrated Microwaves Packaging Antennas & Circuits Technology (IMPACT) Lab, and Ph.D. student Mohammed Farooqui crafted Smart Bandage, a medical device capable of wirelessly communicating to healthcare providers the parameters and abnormalities in wounds’ recovery process.
“More and more we live in a smart world. Wearable sensors are being developed to monitor various physiological parameters of the human body, including temperature, heart rate, electrocardiograms and blood pressure. Chronic wound monitoring is one area of human health that surprisingly has received relatively little attention from the research community,” Shamim said.
Smart Bandage has three types of compact inkjet-printed sensors applied on a disposable bandage. In this way, bleeding, pressure and pH levels in the wounds are monitored and immediately communicated via the inkjet-printed loop antenna to a remote medical staff member’s smartphone. With a patient’s case history one buzz away and accessible from anywhere at any time, Shamim’s Smart Bandage provides much convenience in patients’ lives.
Following expressions of interest by several pharmaceutical companies, Shamim plans to develop marketable products on a large scale, making the Smart Bandage technology a new, cutting-edge technology for wearable sensors for healthcare applications.