Vital-Jacket®: A wearable wireless vital signs monitor for patients' mobility in cardiology and sports

The Vital Jacket ® (VJ) is a wearable vital signs monitoring system that joins textiles with microelectronics. After several years of development within the university lab, it has been licensed to a start-up company. Its evolutions have focused on cardiology and sports and scaled down from a jacket...

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Published in2010 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare pp. 1 - 2
Main Authors Cunha, Joao P Silva, Cunha, Bernardo, Pereira, Antonio Sousa, Xavier, William, Ferreira, Nuno, Meireles, Luis
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.03.2010
Subjects
Biomedical monitoring
Cardiology
Consumer electronics
Electrocardiography
Hospitals
MDD 42/93/CE certified
Microelectronics
Patient monitoring
Research and development
sports
Textiles
wearable electronics
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ISSN2153-1633
DOI10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8991

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Summary:The Vital Jacket ® (VJ) is a wearable vital signs monitoring system that joins textiles with microelectronics. After several years of development within the university lab, it has been licensed to a start-up company. Its evolutions have focused on cardiology and sports and scaled down from a jacket to a single T-shirt. The VJ manufacturing process has recently been certified to comply with the standards ISO9001 and ISO13485 and the cardiology version was approved as a Medical Device for the European market compliant with the MDD directive 42/93/CE, holding the CE1011 mark. The authors intend to wear VJs during the days of the congress to demonstrate its usefulness in first hand and will exemplify the different scenarios of use of this innovative wearable intelligent garment.
ISSN:2153-1633
DOI:10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8991