A monitoring device, comprising: an imaging component comprising: a light emitting component that emits light at a calibrated wavelength, at least three laser emitting devices, each laser emitting device being configured to emit a laser fan beam projected at a particular angle relative to a surface of the device, which produces a laser line on the surface, the laser emitting devices projecting a pattern on the surface that is indicative to a user of an appropriate positioning of the device relative to the surface when the laser lines intersect on the surface, an imaging device; and a computing device communicatively coupled to the imaging component, wherein the computing device: directs the imaging component to cause the light emitting component to emit the light at the calibrated wavelength, directs the imaging component to cause the laser emitting device to emit a laser projection toward a wound, receives, from the imaging component, image data captured by the imaging device, determines, periodically from the image data, after measurement of a size of the wound and after a bandage has been placed over the wound, the amount of exudate by determining that a bandage is covering the wound by analyzing the colors of the image to determine whether the colors correspond to wound colors or bandage colors, detecting a plurality of exudate boundaries present on the bandage, computing an exudate area from the plurality of exudate boundaries by measuring a pixel distance on a pixel map of the image between exudate boundary points and calculating the actual distance based on a length of an image sensor array of the imaging device, a focal length and an area of view of the imaging device, accessing data relating to a baseline wound area, which is historical data relating to previous imaging of the wound, calculating a ratio of the baseline wound area to the exudate area, and determining the amount of exudate from the ratio, and scores the wound based on the amount of exudate to obtain a wound score. an imaging component comprising: a light emitting component that emits light at a calibrated wavelength, at least three laser emitting devices, each laser emitting device being configured to emit a laser fan beam projected at a particular angle relative to a surface of the device, which produces a laser line on the surface, the laser emitting devices projecting a pattern on the surface that is indicative to a user of an appropriate positioning of the device relative to the surface when the laser lines intersect on the surface, an imaging device; and a light emitting component that emits light at a calibrated wavelength, at least three laser emitting devices, each laser emitting device being configured to emit a laser fan beam projected at a particular angle relative to a surface of the device, which produces a laser line on the surface, the laser emitting devices projecting a pattern on the surface that is indicative to a user of an appropriate positioning of the device relative to the surface when the laser lines intersect on the surface, an imaging device; and a computing device communicatively coupled to the imaging component, wherein the computing device: directs the imaging component to cause the light emitting component to emit the light at the calibrated wavelength, directs the imaging component to cause the laser emitting device to emit a laser projection toward a wound, receives, from the imaging component, image data captured by the imaging device, directs the imaging component to cause the light emitting component to emit the light at the calibrated wavelength, directs the imaging component to cause the laser emitting device to emit a laser projection toward a wound, receives, from the imaging component, image data captured by the imaging device, determines, periodically from the image data, after measurement of a size of the wound and after a bandage has been placed over the wound, the amount of exudate by determining that a bandage is covering the wound by analyzing the colors of the image to determine whether the colors correspond to wound colors or bandage colors, detecting a plurality of exudate boundaries present on the bandage, computing an exudate area from the plurality of exudate boundaries by measuring a pixel distance on a pixel map of the image between exudate boundary points and calculating the actual distance based on a length of an image sensor array of the imaging device, a focal length and an area of view of the imaging device, accessing data relating to a baseline wound area, which is historical data relating to previous imaging of the wound, calculating a ratio of the baseline wound area to the exudate area, and determining the amount of exudate from the ratio, and scores the wound based on the amount of exudate to obtain a wound score.