Advances in textile technologies for unobtrusive monitoring of vital parameters and movements

Author

Paradiso, Rita ; Rossi, Danilo De

Author_Institution

Smartex Labs., Prato

fYear

2006

fDate

Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006

Firstpage

392

Lastpage

395

Abstract

Recent research and development activity is described in the field of textile-based wearable systems for personalized health care. Sensorized shirts for vital signs monitoring and wearable systems for gesture and posture recognition are specifically illustrated, resulting from the EU funded project my heart

Keywords

biomedical electrodes; biomedical transducers; electrocardiography; fabrics; gesture recognition; health care; medical signal processing; patient monitoring; piezoresistive devices; yarn; cardiopulmonary signs monitoring; conductive yarn; fabric electrodes; gesture recognition; human movements monitoring; personalized health care; piezoresistive fabric sensors; posture recognition; sensorized shirts; textile technology; textile-based wearable system; Biomedical monitoring; Biosensors; Cardiovascular diseases; Clothing; Condition monitoring; Intelligent sensors; Textile fibers; Textile technology; US Department of Transportation; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0032-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259307

Filename

4461769