Smart textiles and clothing for mobile monitoring of human vital functions “INTELIGENTEX”

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Basic information:

Project title: Smart textiles and clothing for mobile monitoring of human vital functions “INTELIGENTEX”
Identification number of the project: APVV-14-0519
Duration of the project: 07/2015 – 06/2017
Applicant: University of Žilina
Co-operating institution: VÚTCH-CHEMITEX, spol. s r.o., Žilina
Responsible investigator for VÚTCH: Ing. Ľudmila Balogová

Characteristics of the project:

Main idea of the project is to contribute to accomplishment of platforms of the future based on wireless monitoring and transfer of human vital functions with a possibility of subsequent healthcare in real time. The project focuses on development of functional components for smart clothing, development and testing innovative algorithms for analysis, evaluation, display and archiving the sensed biomedicinal signals as well as development of smart clothing prototype. An expected project result will be a prototype of smart clothing with incorporated textile sensors, textile electrodes and microelectronics, communication interface and a terminal with user interface.