CETEMMSA Hosts Webinar on Printed Sensors and Smart Textiles for Mobile Health

CETEMMSA is holding a free 20-minute webinar titled “Printed Sensors and Smart Textiles for Mobile Health,” which will be held July 16.

In the last decade, textile technology emerged as an innovative tool for the development of smart devices with diverse medical applications. The main aim of this whole new sector is to produce wearable, conformable, flexible and low-cost textile-based devices bringing innovative solutions to different markets.

Printed electronics, as a new enabling technology, fully addresses this aim by allowing the creation of new and innovative functionalized textile products, in the demanding and highly specialized world of medical devices. Textile sensors can now be embedded in smart garments, capable of collecting signals from both the patient and its environment. In particular, physiological and physical monitoring of patients can be performed ubiquitously and in a minimally obtrusive way.

With properly designed healthcare platforms, individualized treatments can be delivered avoiding unnecessary hospitalizations, increasing prevention capabilities and allowing faster responses to patient’s symptoms. Similar platforms, combined with specifically designed wearable devices can be also useful for physiotherapy rehabilitations. In this scenario the patient performs comfortably the prescribed exercises at home with a remote monitoring at the corresponding health centre.

To illustrate this profound revolution in the conception and use of products, real examples of how printed electronics have allowed to create new and innovative functionalized textile products for the healthcare sector will be shown.

This webinar is relevant to innovation managers, technology developers, researchers, research managers, product managers, designers and entrepreneurs.

Lecture will be presented by Dr. Laura López, the research manager of CETEMMSA for the past three years, leading the research lines related to biofunctionalization, photonics, printed circuits and components and printed sensors and seeking for strategic collaborations. She is experienced in business and technology transfer and IP management. Currently she is the head of scientific valorisation of CETEMMSA (Business and Technology Transfer).