Smart clothes and associated wearable devices for ]biomedical ambulatory monitoring

Abstract

Health smart clothes which are in contact with almost all the surface of the skin offer large possibilities for the location of sensors for noninvasive measurements. Head band, collar, tee-shirt, socks, shoes, belts for chest, arm, wrist, legs provide localization with specific purpose taking into account their proximity of an organ or a source of biosignal, and also its ergonomic possibility (user friendliness) to fix a sensor, and the associated instrumentation (batteries, amplifiers, signal processing, telecommunication, alarm, display). The research is oriented toward two complementary directions : improving the relevancy of each sensor and increasing the number of sensors for having a more global synthetic and robust information.