The latest news in the air is that DARPA is now accepting applications for a new ’smart tape’ sensor patch to monitor troop’s health on battlefields and even when they are not there.
The main objective of this programme of DARPA is to create low-cost medical sensor systems to support DoD missions and to compute the snowballing effects of blasts exposure.
This new programme will also assist to combat medical care, patient triage and physiologic monitoring to maintain physiologic performance of soldiers but it is also predicted that to meet these goals the programme will demand furthering print-on electronics and ink formulation technologies. So therefore, to eliminate these demands DARPA is nowadays busy in receiving proposals to exploit the novel properties of print-on electronics to construct these medical monitoring systems.
The agency has two principle systems to achieve, firstly to develop an helmet (or body-mounted) blast dosimeters and secondly, to develop basic patient physiological monitoring devices to measure heart rate, body temperature, pulse, respiration and blood oxygen saturation.
Each system will come bundled with a patch-like sensor device and a monitoring unit to communicate with the sensor tape patch.
But along with these systems other ground-breaking medical devices that integrate print-on electronics and related technologies can also be proposed, might be for future amalgamation of all the technologies and to create an avant-garde technology that might encompass all the systems in one single sensor.
Via: Medgadget
