Overview of progress in Smart-Clothing project for health monitoring and sport applications

Author

Borges, Luís M. ; Rente, Andreia ; Velez, Fernando J. ; Salvado, Luisa R. ; Lebres, António S. ; Oliveira, Jillian M. ; Araújo, Pedro ; Ferro, João

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electromech. Eng., Univ. of Beira Interior, Covilha

fYear

2008

fDate

25-28 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Smart Clothing is a project that combines research in textiles materials and wireless sensor and actuator networks in the context of human body monitoring with statistical methods for the data analysis and treatment. This project aims mainly to aid in the monitoring of the foetal movement in the last four weeks of pregnancy. Besides the integration of sensors in the garment there will be needed a hierarchical communication system that allows the delivery of the data collected from the garment that the pregnant is wearing to the doctor. The pregnant can be either at home or in the hospital. In the first stage of the project tests are being made using several types of sensors integrated in a belt in order to choose the one that is more reliable for the detection of foetal movement. Another sensing task is the manufacture of the electrodes for the electrocardiogram (ECG) system. At this point, the electrodes for the ECG are already made and working. The testing of the sensor for the detection of foetal movement is still being done.

Keywords

bioinformatics; biomechanics; biomedical electrodes; biosensors; body area networks; electrocardiography; intelligent materials; obstetrics; paediatrics; patient care; patient monitoring; sportswear; wireless sensor networks; ECG; Smart Clothing; actuator network; data analysis; electrocardiogram system; electrodes; foetal movement; garment; health monitoring; hierarchical communication system; human body monitoring; pregnancy; sensor integration; sport application; textiles materials; wireless sensor network; Clothing; Electrocardiography; Electrodes; Intelligent actuators; Intelligent sensors; Monitoring; Pregnancy; Testing; Textiles; Wireless sensor networks; Hierarchical Wireless Communications; Smart Textiles; Sports; Tele Medicine; WSAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Sciences on Biomedical and Communication Technologies, 2008. ISABEL '08. First International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Aalborg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2647-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2648-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISABEL.2008.4712605

Filename

4712605