Title : 
The design and development of a wearable posture monitoring vest
         
        
            Author : 
Wen-Yen Lin ; Ming-Yee Lee ; Wen-Cheng Chou
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Healthy Aging Res. Center, Chang Gung Univ., Kwei-Shan, Taiwan
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This study presents the design and development of a new textile based intelligent wearable vest for real-time multi-posture monitoring and warning of urgency through the cooperation of the Engineering School at Chang Gung University and Taiwan Textile Research Institute (TTRI). With the system, it offers a high portability, low cost, and indoor/outdoor solution suitable for long-term health care usage at home for health promotion, healthy aging assessment, and health abnormality alert about the human postures.
         
        
            Keywords : 
alarm systems; biomedical measurement; body sensor networks; gait analysis; health care; intelligent sensors; patient care; patient monitoring; portable instruments; Chang Gung University; Engineering School; TTRI; Taiwan Textile Research Institute; health abnormality alert; health promotion; healthy aging assessment; human postures; indoor/outdoor solution; long-term health care usage; low cost devive; portability; real-time multiposture monitoring; textile based intelligent wearable vest; urgency warning; wearable posture monitoring vest design; wearable posture monitoring vest development; Biomedical monitoring; Clothing; Educational institutions; Medical services; Monitoring; Real-time systems; Sensors;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Las Vegas, NV
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4799-1290-2
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICCE.2014.6776027