ST+D are world-renown experts in designing and providing high quality electrodes and sensors for use on the human body.

The company’s expertise is deeply entwined with the extensive skills and facilities at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. This includes the Northern Ireland Bioengineering Centre, the Northern Ireland Centre of Advanced Materials and the all-Ireland Biomedical and Environmental Sensors Technology Centre.

Key Skills and Experience

ST+D design and manufacture sensors and electrodes for use with in-house products and also for use by OEMs with their own products.

• Ability to replace a group of slow-to-fit electrodes with a single ‘patch electrode’.
• Screen printing electrode manufacture using solid gel allowing all shapes to be catered for while providing the most efficient pick-up of the vital signs.
• Extensive manufacturing experience to consistently quality produce sensors in quantity.
• Science of the skin including long term non-irritant materials.
• Medical design of sensors for best signal to noise.
• Design to remove motion artifacts.
• Innovative sensing eg for core body temperature, respiration, impedance mapping and much more.
• Defibrillation electrodes with excellent recovery times.
• AAMI standard and CE/FDA certification of electrodes.
• Clinical trials of medical devices in controlled conditions with suitable numbers of relevant patients.