The WEALTHY wearable health monitoring system, based on knitted integrated sensors, successfully acquired biomedical signals (ECG, respiration, activity) comparable to standard monitoring systems.
Does the WEALTHY wearable health care system acquire biomedical signals comparably to a standard monitoring system?
A novel textile-based wearable health monitoring system can acquire ECG, respiration, and activity signals comparably to standard sensors.
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.
Paradiso et al. (Thu,) conducted a other in Cardiovascular diseases (rehabilitation phase) and professional stress. WEALTHY wearable health monitoring system vs. Standard monitoring system was evaluated on Simultaneous acquisition of biomedical signals (electrocardiogram, respiration, activity). The WEALTHY wearable health monitoring system, based on knitted integrated sensors, successfully acquired biomedical signals (ECG, respiration, activity) comparable to standard monitoring systems.