• DocumentCode
    517798
  • Title

    Vital-Jacket®: A wearable wireless vital signs monitor for patients´ mobility in cardiology and sports

  • Author

    Cunha, Jolla P Silva ; Cunha, Bernardo ; Pereira, António Sousa ; Xavier, William ; Ferreira, Nuno ; Meireles, Luis

  • Author_Institution
    IEETA/Dep. Electron., Telecomm. & Inf., Univ. of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    22-25 March 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The Vital Jacket® (VJ) is a wearable vital signs monitoring system that joins textiles with microelectronics. After several years of development within the university lab, it has been licensed to a start-up company. Its evolutions have focused on cardiology and sports and scaled down from a jacket to a single T-shirt. The VJ manufacturing process has recently been certified to comply with the standards ISO9001 and ISO13485 and the cardiology version was approved as a Medical Device for the European market compliant with the MDD directive 42/93/CE, holding the CE1011 mark. The authors intend to wear VJs during the days of the congress to demonstrate its usefulness in first hand and will exemplify the different scenarios of use of this innovative wearable intelligent garment.
  • Keywords
    cardiology; computerised monitoring; medical computing; patient monitoring; sport; wearable computers; ISO13485 standard; ISO9001 standard; MDD 42/93/CE directive; Vital-Jacket; cardiology; patient mobility; sports; wearable wireless vital signs monitor; Biomedical monitoring; Cardiology; Clothing; Consumer electronics; Electrocardiography; Hospitals; Microelectronics; Patient monitoring; Research and development; Textiles; MDD 42/93/CE certified; cardiology; sports; wearable electronics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), 2010 4th International Conference on-NO PERMISSIONS
  • Conference_Location
    Munich
  • Print_ISBN
    978-963-9799-89-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-963-9799-89-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8991
  • Filename
    5482268