April 17, 2008 - In an attempt to make heart monitoring less visible
and bulky for individuals requiring continuous monitoring of their heart,
BioDevices, SA, has a unique solution. The company has developed a T-shirt
which continuously monitors heart rate and ECG waves. This is an ideal solution
for elderly patients and has a lot of potential for fitness applications as
well.
The Vital Jacket® is a wearable vital signs monitoring system that joins textiles with
microelectronics. It was designed and developed to be a usable pragmatic
approach for different clinical and normal life scenarios, in hospitals, home
or on the move, that need continuous or frequent high quality vital signs
monitoring from the patient or healthy subject. The concept was designed and
specified based on the long tradition on biomedical instrumentation and
telemedicine of the IEETA institute of the University of Aveiro, Portugal (www.ieeta.pt/sias).
The Vital Jacket® HWM mobile device is an intelligent wearable garnment that is able to
continuous monitor electrocardiogram (ECG) wave and Heart Rate for different
fitness, high performance sports, security and medical applications.
There are currently two versions, HWM100 that stores data on a SD memory
card for posterior analysis in a PC and, HWM200 that allows on-line
visualization using a smartphone/PDA.