Title :
Bio-sensing textiles to support health management
Author_Institution :
Centre Suisse d´´Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM) SA, Switzerland
Abstract :
Integration of health monitoring tools into textiles brings the benefits of safety and comfort to the users. Instrumented clothes will provide remote monitoring of vital signs, diagnostics to improve early illness detection and metabolic disorder and benefits to the reduction on medical social costs to the citizen. Ambulatory healthcare, isolated people, convalescent people and patients with chronic diseases are addressed.
Keywords :
Biomedical monitoring; Biomedical optical imaging; Biosensors; Health and safety; Optical saturation; Optical sensors; Remote monitoring; Temperature measurement; Textiles; Wounds; Biomedical Engineering; Biosensing Techniques; Humans; Monitoring, Physiologic; Textiles;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1814-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649546
