SECOND SKIN Project: BioIntegrated Wireless Sensors for the Epidermal Monitoring and Restoring of Sensorial Injuries

SECOND SKIN was a two-year project addressing bio-integrated wireless-sensing epidermal membranes. Being flexible and elastic, they are suitable to be placed in direct contact with the human skin. As the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is exploited for data acquisition and communication, they are able to work without a battery and can be interrogated remotely through fixed and/or wearable readers. The innovations of the project spanned from the definition of designing methodologies and manufacturing techniques for prototyping, up to real-world experimental evaluations to assess usability, durability and insensitivity to body variability. The project findings have now led to the consolidation of the RFID technology potentialities with respect to the monitoring of the human body's biophysical data.