Smart Footwear for Diabetic Foot Care and Ulcer Prevention

• Unité de recherche: INNOSUISSE
• Numéro de projet: 107.872 IP-ENG
• Titre du projet anglais: Smart Footwear for Diabetic Foot Care and Ulcer Prevention

Mots-clé (Anglais)

Engineering, Electrical engineering

Résumé des résultats (Abstract) (Anglais)

Every 20 seconds, a person with diabetes undergoes an amputation somewhere in the world. High plantar pressure (PP) combined with foot insensitivity is the main amputation risk factor. An intelligent offloading system which could autonomously redistribute local PPs is therefore of great interest.