Sus­tron­ics Pilot 2.2 advances more sus­tain­able ECG patch devel­op­ment

Sus­tain­abil­i­ty and health­care tech­nol­o­gy are com­ing togeth­er in excit­ing new ways through the EU-fund­ed Sus­tron­ics project. Sus­tron­ics Pilot 2.2 focused on devel­op­ing a more sus­tain­able ECG patch solu­tion, cov­er­ing the entire devel­op­ment process from more sus­tain­able mate­r­i­al selec­tions to val­i­dat­ed ECG per­for­mance. By com­bin­ing research with flex­i­ble print­ed elec­tron­ics, low­er-impact mate­r­i­al alter­na­tives, and inte­grat­ed sens­ing tech­nolo­gies, the pilot suc­cess­ful­ly demon­strat­ed that reli­able and high-qual­i­ty ECG mon­i­tor­ing can be achieved while sup­port­ing sus­tain­abil­i­ty goals.

The pilot demon­strat­ed strong progress in devel­op­ing flex­i­ble and skin-friend­ly elec­trode solu­tions suit­able for wear­able health mon­i­tor­ing appli­ca­tions. Func­tion­al pro­to­types were test­ed in real-life sce­nar­ios, includ­ing exer­cise and move­ment track­ing, prov­ing both usabil­i­ty and dura­bil­i­ty in demand­ing con­di­tions.

A key strength of Pilot 2.2 was the close col­lab­o­ra­tion between sev­en Euro­pean part­ners across the val­ue chain. Ter­vakos­ki Oy (Delfort) sup­plied paper-based sub­strate – a bio-based, flex­i­ble car­ri­er replac­ing con­ven­tion­al plas­tic films. UPM con­tributed spe­cial­ty paper exper­tise, expand­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ties of paper as a func­tion­al base mate­r­i­al. VTT and Tam­pere Uni­ver­si­ty led research into print­ed elec­tron­ics and alter­na­tive con­duc­tive inks, replac­ing sil­ver pastes with more sus­tain­able options.

Screen­tec brought print­ed elec­tron­ics man­u­fac­tur­ing exper­tise, whileE­DI sup­port­ed process engi­neer­ing and sys­tems inte­gra­tion. The ECG patch was designed with a stan­dard snap-fit con­nec­tor com­pat­i­ble with the Movesense sen­sor plat­form, enabling prac­ti­cal inte­gra­tion into wear­able mon­i­tor­ing solu­tions.

From ear­ly-stage mate­r­i­al research to val­i­dat­ed end-prod­uct demon­stra­tions, Pilot 2.2 showed how more sus­tain­able elec­tron­ics can move beyond lab­o­ra­to­ry envi­ron­ments into scal­able health­care appli­ca­tions with real mar­ket poten­tial.

The achieve­ments of Pilot 2.2 sup­port the broad­er goals of the Sus­tron­ics project: accel­er­at­ing the devel­op­ment of more sus­tain­able elec­tron­ics while strength­en­ing Europe’s com­pet­i­tive­ness in next-gen­er­a­tion wear­able tech­nolo­gies.

See the full video here: https://youtu.be/YdJE-H_d9gY

Find out more about Sus­tron­ics Project here: www.sustronics.eu

Source (text and image): Screen­tec