BIOTEXBiosensing textiles for personalised healthcare management

Shirley Coyle*, King Tong Lau, Niall Moyna, Donal O'Gorman, Dermot Diamond, Fabio Di Francesco, Daniele Costanzo, Pietro Salvo, Maria Giovanna Trivella, Danilo Emilio De Rossi, Nicola Taccini, Rita Paradiso, Jacque André Porchet, Andrea Ridolfi, Jean Luprano, Cyril Chuzel, Thierry Lanier, Frédéric Revol-Cavalier, Sébastien Schoumacker, Véronique MourierIsabelle Chartier, Reynald Convert, Henri De-Moncuit, Christina Bini

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Abstract

Textile-based sensors offer an unobtrusive method of continually monitoring physiological parameters during daily activities. Chemical analysis of body fluids, noninvasively, is a novel and exciting area of personalized wearable healthcare systems. BIOTEX was an EU-funded project that aimed to develop textile sensors to measure physiological parameters and the chemical composition of body fluids, with a particular interest in sweat. A wearable sensing system has been developed that integrates a textile-based fluid handling system for sample collection and transport with a number of sensors including sodium, conductivity, and pH sensors. Sensors for sweat rate, ECG, respiration, and blood oxygenation were also developed. For the first time, it has been possible to monitor a number of physiological parameters together with sweat composition in real time. This has been carried out via a network of wearable sensors distributed around the body of a subject user. This has huge implications for the field of sports and human performance and opens a whole new field of research in the clinical setting.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5373946
Pages (from-to)364-370
Number of pages7
JournalIEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Volume14
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2010
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Biomedical equipment
  • Biomedical monitoring
  • Intelligent materials
  • Multisensor systems

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