title: Telemonitoring of vital parameters with newly designed biomedical clothing.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: TAM-Télésanté, Domaine du Petit Arbois, BP 70, 13 545 Aix en Provence Cedex 4, France.
authors.forename: J-L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Blanc
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dittmar
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Comet
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Corroy
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Noury
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baghai
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vaysse
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Blinowska
mesh_terms: 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*