December 6, 2014 at 10:09Developed tissue transmitting human biomedical data
Canadian researchers have created “smart tissue” that can monitor and transmit biomedical information, including blood glucose and brain activity, wirelessly.
The material simultaneously serves as a sensor and antenna. Clothing can be woven from wool or cotton, using fibers from copper, polymers, silver and glass. According to scientists, the signal quality in 2.4 GHz wireless networks is comparable to commercial antennas.
The material is able to monitor the level of glucose, heart rate, brain activity, as well as the coordinates of the owner in space. The clothes will withstand high tensile and bending loads, continue to work at a temperature of 350 ° C, in bad weather and after cleaning with detergents. That is, such "smart" clothes can be easily washed in a typewriter.
Earlier this year, Cityzen Sciences announced the production of its own Smart Sensing clothing technology. Sensors are sewn into the garment, which measure such important parameters for the athlete as temperature, pulse, sweating intensity. Data is transmitted to the user's smartphone.
The developers planned to build a battery that will be charged during washing in the washing machine.
In Russia at the Open Innovations Forum this year they presented their own “smart” T-shirt . But it is not for sports, but for the elderly and for clinic patients - such clothes do not measure the pulse, but make an electrocardiogram and transmit it in real time.
The material simultaneously serves as a sensor and antenna. Clothing can be woven from wool or cotton, using fibers from copper, polymers, silver and glass. According to scientists, the signal quality in 2.4 GHz wireless networks is comparable to commercial antennas.
The material is able to monitor the level of glucose, heart rate, brain activity, as well as the coordinates of the owner in space. The clothes will withstand high tensile and bending loads, continue to work at a temperature of 350 ° C, in bad weather and after cleaning with detergents. That is, such "smart" clothes can be easily washed in a typewriter.
Earlier this year, Cityzen Sciences announced the production of its own Smart Sensing clothing technology. Sensors are sewn into the garment, which measure such important parameters for the athlete as temperature, pulse, sweating intensity. Data is transmitted to the user's smartphone.
The developers planned to build a battery that will be charged during washing in the washing machine.
In Russia at the Open Innovations Forum this year they presented their own “smart” T-shirt . But it is not for sports, but for the elderly and for clinic patients - such clothes do not measure the pulse, but make an electrocardiogram and transmit it in real time.