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

fYear

2014

fDate

10-13 Jan. 2014

Firstpage

329

Lastpage

330

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

ISSN

2158-3994

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1290-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE.2014.6776027

Filename

6776027