NFC-enabled smart bandage aids healing, could detect Covid-19 symptoms, researchers say • NFCW

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By Tom Phillips ^[2] • 6 April 2021 • Updated 6 April 2021 • nfcw.com ^[3]

Researchers at the University of Glasgow have developed a smart bandage incorporating wireless sensors and an NFC tag that can monitor a patient’s temperature and skin strain level, apply pressure to help a wound heal and transmit data to healthcare providers via a smartphone app.

The flexible adhesive bandage has been developed to assist with wound healing, but it also has the potential to monitor breathing and detect respiratory diseases such as asthma and Covid-19 when placed on a patient’s chest, the researchers from the university’s Bendable Electronics and Sensing Technologies ^[4] group say.

“Temperature is a well established marker of inflammation or infection in wounds and can be an early indicator of chronicity or predictor of healing even though wound appearances may not differ,” the group’s open-access research paper explains ^[5].

“Likewise, the skin strain can be used as an effective routine to keep track of wound closure or skin growth during wound healing.

“The application of controlled mechanical forces on a wound can also accelerate neovascularization and cellular

NFC-enabled smart bandage aids healing, could detect Covid-19 symptoms, researchers say • NFCW

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