SmartHEAL, a smart dressing by graduates and now PhD students at the Warsaw University of Technology (PW), has won the James Dyson Award competition. The solution is designed to help heal chronic wounds.

SmartHEAL is a smart pH sensor integrated into a wound dressing. By monitoring the pH values, it can assess the condition of the wound and detect infection without removing the dressing and therefore without disturbing the tissue.

The developers of the solution: Tomasz Raczyński, Piotr Walter, and Dominik Baraniecki- graduates of the Faculty of Mechatronics and currently doctoral students at the Warsaw University of Technology. They have already developed a sensor and confirmed its operation in laboratory conditions. They have also developed a technology for integrating printed electronics into textiles.

The winner of the competition was chosen by James Dyson himself, just naming the authors of the SmartHEAL project, who will receive PLN 162 000 for its further development.