BIOTEX: biosensing textiles for personalized healthcare management

  • Authors:

  • Shirley Coyle;King-Tong Lau;Niall Moyna;Donal O'Gorman;Dermot Diamond;Fabio Di Francesco;Daniele Costanzo;Pietro Salvo;Maria Giovanna Trivella;Danilo Emilio De Rossi;Nicola Taccini;Rita Paradiso;Jacque-André Porchet;Andrea Ridolfi;Jean Luprano;Cyril Chuzel;Thierry Lanier;Frédéric Revol-Cavalier;Sébastien Schoumacker;Véronique Mourier;Isabelle Chartier;Reynald Convert;Henri De-Moncuit;Christina Bini

  • Affiliations:

  • CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland;CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland;CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland;CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland;CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland;Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy;Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy;Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca "E. Piaggio," Università di Pisa, Italy;Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy;Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca "E. Piaggio," Università di Pisa, Italy;Smartex s.r.l, Navacchio, Italy;Smartex s.r.l, Navacchio, Italy;Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique, CSEM SA, Neuchâtel, Switzerland;Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique, CSEM SA, Neuchâtel, Switzerland;Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique, CSEM SA, Neuchâtel, Switzerland;Sofileta, Bourgoin-Jallieu, France;Sofileta, Bourgoin-Jallieu, France;Electronics and Information Technology Laboratory of the French Atomic Energy Commission, MINATEC, Grenoble, France;Electronics and Information Technology Laboratory of the French Atomic Energy Commission, MINATEC, Grenoble, France;Electronics and Information Technology Laboratory of the French Atomic Energy Commission, MINATEC, Grenoble, France;Electronics and Information Technology Laboratory of the French Atomic Energy Commission, MINATEC, Grenoble, France;Thuasne, St. Etienne, France;Thuasne, St. Etienne, France;Penelope SpA, Montemurlo, Italy

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine - Special section on affective and pervasive computing for healthcare
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Textile-based sensors offer an unobtrusive method of continually monitoring physiological parameters during daily activities. Chemical analysis of body fluids, noninvasively, is a novel and exciting area of personalized wearable healthcare systems. BIOTEX was an EU-funded project that aimed to develop textile sensors to measure physiological parameters and the chemical composition of body fluids, with a particular interest in sweat. A wearable sensing system has been developed that integrates a textile-based fluid handling system for sample collection and transport with a number of sensors including sodium, conductivity, and pH sensors. Sensors for sweat rate, ECG, respiration, and blood oxygenation were also developed. For the first time, it has been possible tomonitor a number of physiological parameters together with sweat composition in real time. This has been carried out via a network of wearable sensors distributed around the body of a subject user. This has huge implications for the field of sports and human performance and opens a whole new field of research in the clinical setting.