• DocumentCode
    1736408
  • Title

    SmartVest: Integrating clothing with domotics, health care and information technologies

  • Author

    Araújo, Pedro ; Salvado, Rita

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. de Inf., Univ. da Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    This paper presents the SmartVest project {Smart + Vestis (Latin noun meaning clothes}, that is under development at the University of Beira Interior, Portugal. It integrates clothing technologies with electronics and information technologies, for further application in home automation (domotics) and health care (eHealth). Besides the technological aspects, also fashion and usability of the clothing pieces are considered.
  • Keywords
    clothing; health care; home automation; medical computing; wearable computers; Portugal; SmartVest; SmartVest project; clothing technologies; domotics; eHealth; health care; home automation; information technologies; integrating clothing; Biomedical monitoring; Clothing; Electrocardiography; Internet; Medical services; Monitoring; Wearable computers; domotics; health care; wearable technologies;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2010 5th Iberian Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Santiago de Compostela
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7227-7
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5556642