Telemonitoring of vital parameters with newly designed biomedical clothing.
The paper describes the development of biomedical clothing for ambulatory telemonitoring of human vital parameters. VTAM (Vetement de Tele-Assistance Medicale) presents a T-shirt made from textile with woven wires and incorporating four smooth dry ECG electrodes, a breath rate sensor, a shock/fall detector and two temperature sensors. The garment is equipped for the signal pre-computing and transmission through a miniature GSM/GPRS module kept on a belt together with the power supply. Three VTAM prototypes have been tested on persons in a normal state of health using a medical protocol to assess the biomedical data that include an ECG reading, a pneumogram, temperature and fall detection in mobile situations.
Weber
J-L
JL
TAM-Télésanté, Domaine du Petit Arbois, BP 70, 13 545 Aix en Provence Cedex 4, France.
Blanc
D
D
Dittmar
A
A
Comet
B
B
Corroy
C
C
Noury
N
N
Baghai
R
R
Vaysse
S
S
Blinowska
A
A
D015374:Biosensing Techniques; D001831:Body Temperature; D003020:Clothing; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*