Development of smart-textile for lifetime vital sensing

Abstract

Medical biometric information is required to be measured in a resting state or under constrained constraints. However, adverse effects on the measurement results caused by the environment at the time of measurement are implicitly accepted. A smart device that integrates these sensors with little wearing feeling into one device and can obtain biological information (pulse, electrocardiogram, body temperature distribution, body movement) that could not be measured at the same time from one clothes. Smart Textile can not only obtain measurement results without disturbance that releases the limitations of existing wearable devices, but also acquire biological information in all situations such as sleep, eating, exercise, etc.The ultimate goal is to acquire the big data of the whole living time by using the smart textile created by this research, and to develop new medical equipment and health care devices based on this information.