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Future washable smart clothes powered by Wi-Fi will monitor your health

Future washable smart clothes powered by Wi-Fi will monitor your health | healthcare technology | Scoop.it

Purdue University engineers have developed a method to transform existing cloth items into battery-free wearables resistant to laundry. These smart clothes are powered wirelessly through a flexible, silk-based coil sewn on the textile.

 

In the near future, all your clothes will become smart. These smart clothes will outperform conventional passive garments, thanks to their miniaturized electronic circuits and sensors, which will allow you to seamlessly communicate with your phone, computer, car and other machines.

 

This smart clothing will not only make you more productive but also check on your health status and even call for help if you suffer an accident. The reason why this smart clothing is not all over your closet yet is that the fabrication of this smart clothing is quite challenging, as clothes need to be periodically washed and electronics despise water.

 

Purdue engineers have developed a new spray/sewing method to transform any conventional cloth items into battery-free wearables that can be cleaned in the washing machine.

 

"By spray-coating smart clothes with highly hydrophobic molecules, we are able to render them repellent to water, oil and mud," said Ramses Martinez, an assistant professor in Purdue's School of Industrial Engineering and in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering in Purdue's College of Engineering. "These smart clothes are almost impossible to stain and can be used underwater and washed in conventional washing machines without damaging the electronic components sewn on their surface."

 

read the study at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2021.106155

 

read the original and unedited version of the article at https://phys.org/news/2021-06-wearables-future-washable-smart-powered.html

 

 

Stephanie Chavarria's curator insight, November 12, 2021 2:40 PM
this is interesting to buy it is beneficial for other's and for people that really need it for example this website helps and gives goods reasons why we should be this type of product it says it's foe your health and good and not needs. 
Avidity Medical Design Consultants, LLC's comment, January 28, 2022 12:03 AM
Smart clothing is an excellent concept, especially being able to check on a person's health and call for help in the event of an accident. Thanks for sharing.
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mHealth patch bests Holter in cardiac monitoring

mHealth patch bests Holter in cardiac monitoring | healthcare technology | Scoop.it

New research indicates a wireless device could do a better job than the Holter monitor, the standard of care for mobile heart rhythm monitoring over the past half-century.


The Scripps Translational Science Institute compared the Holter monitor with the ZIO Patch, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive, water-resistant device worn on the chest for up to two weeks. STSI, based in San Diego, compared electrocardiograph data from 146 Scripps Green Hospital ambulatory care patients who were fitted with both the ZIO Patch and a Holter monitor.


In all, researchers said, the ZIO Patch, developed by San Francisco-based iRhythm, identified 96 arrhythmia events, while the Holter monitor detected 61.


“This is the first large prospective validation that this new technology superseded the device invented by Norman Holter in 1949,” said Eric Topol, MD, chief academic officer at Scripps Health and STSI's director.


Topol, a cardiologist and lead author of the study, continued in a prepared statement that over the course of tracking every heartbeat for two weeks “the ZIO Service proved to be significantly more sensitive” than the Holter, which consists of a cellphone-sized recorder usually worn about the waist and five to seven lead wires attached to the chest and can only be worn for 24 hours at a time.


“For millions of people who present each year with suspected arrhythmia, this may prove to be the new standard for capturing the culprit heart rhythm electrical disturbance, most commonly atrial fibrillation which carries a significant risk of stroke,” Topol added.


learn more about the ZIO Patch at http://www.irhythmtech.com/zio-solution/zio-patch/