OFSETH – smart textile sensors for healthcare
OFSETH (Optical Fiber Sensors Embedded into technical Textile for Health-care) is a European project of the 6th Framework Program and will be part of the Smart Textiles Salon prototype presentation in Ghent, a European workshop jointly organized by the European projects SysTex and Proetex.
The OFSETH project aims to develop optical fiber based sensors for health [...]
HealthWear – wearable electronic health monitoring
Venturing around research activities into wearable electronic another European funded projects got my attention: the HealthWear project, a collaboration funded by the Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission with the aim to deliver a service that provides uninterrupted and ubiquitous monitoring of the health condition of individuals in rehabilitation phase.
Integrating monitoring function such [...]
e-Textile pants can improve the lifestyle for elderly
We have pointed out in the past ththe high value e-textiles and wearable technologies have to help improving the lifestyle of persons requiring medical treatment, rehabilitation after medical treatment and enhancing the life style of elderly persons by assisting declining body functions.
Without wearable technologies many of this persons are confined to rooms or stationary monitoring. [...]
