A Wearable Health Care System Based on Knitted Integrated Sensors
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A comfortable health monitoring system named WEALTHY is presented. The system is based on a textile wearable interface implemented by integrating sensors, electrodes, and connections in fabric form, advanced signal processing techniques, and modern telecommunication systems. Sensors, electrodes and connections are realized with conductive and piezoresistive yarns. The sensorized knitted fabric is produced in a one step process. The purpose of this paper is to show the feasibility of a system based on fabric sensing elements. The capability of this system to acquire simultaneously several biomedical signals (i.e. electrocardiogram, respiration, activity) has been investigated and compared with a standard monitoring system. Furthermore, the paper presents two different methodologies for the acquisition of the respiratory signal with textile sensors. Results show that the information contained in the signals obtained by the integrated systems is comparable with that obtained by standard sensors. The proposed system is designed to monitor individuals affected by cardiovascular diseases, in particular during the rehabilitation phase. The system can also help professional workers who are subject to considerable physical and psychological stress and/or environmental and professional health risks.
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- Authors
- Paradiso, R., Loriga, G., & Taccini, N.
- Affiliations
- Smartex (Italy) (IT)
- ORCID
- Paradiso, R.
- Venue
- IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
- Published
- 2005-09
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 337-344
- ISSN
- 1089-7771 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2142034317
- Cited by
- 729
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 14.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Wireless Body Area Networks
- Keywords
- wearable health monitoring, conductive yarns, electrocardiogram, activity monitoring, occupational health surveillance, telemedicine
- MeSH terms
- Clothing, Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted, Electrocardiography, Equipment Design, Spirometry, Telemetry, Textiles, Transducers, Telemedicine, Systems Integration, Monitoring, Ambulatory, Equipment Failure Analysis
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