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Textile Sensor Platform (TSP) - Development of a Textile Real-Time Electrocardiogram

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Abstract

Being able to monitor the heart activity of patients during their daily life in a reliable, comfortable and affordable way is one main goal of the personalized medicine. Current wearable solutions lack either on the wearing comfort, the quality and type of the data provided or the price of the device. This paper shows the development of a Textile Sensor Platform (TSP) in the form of an electrocardiogram (ECG)-measuring T-shirt that is able to transmit the ECG signal to a smartphone. The development process includes the selection of the materials, the design of the textile electrodes taking into consideration their electrical characteristics and ergonomy, the integration of the electrodes on the garment and their connection with the embedded electronic part. The TSP is able to transmit a real-time streaming of the ECG-signal to an Android smartphone through Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). Initial results show a good electrical quality in the textile electrodes and promising results in the capture and transmission of the ECG-signal. This is still a work-in-progress and it is the result of an interdisciplinary master project between the School of Informatics and the School of Textiles & Design of the Reutlingen University.

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  • 28 March 2018

    The acknowledgement section of this paper was not given originally. It was added in the paper to thank some students who contributed to the work but were not authors.

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We thank our students Marija Elbl, Alice Fensch, Lena Rademacher, Johannes Schuh and Clemens Weißenberg for their contributions to the research presented in this paper.

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Walzer, T., Thies, C., Meier, K., Madrid, N.M. (2018). Textile Sensor Platform (TSP) - Development of a Textile Real-Time Electrocardiogram. In: Rojas, I., Ortuño, F. (eds) Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering. IWBBIO 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10814. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78759-6_33

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