Vital-Jacket®: A wearable wireless vital signs monitor for patients' mobility in cardiology and sports

Joao P. Silva Cunha; Bernardo Cunha; Antonio Sousa Pereira; William Xavier; Nuno Ferreira; Luis Meireles

4th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Research Article

Vital-Jacket®: A wearable wireless vital signs monitor for patients' mobility in cardiology and sports

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.899,
    author={Joao P. Silva Cunha and Bernardo Cunha and Antonio Sousa Pereira and William Xavier and Nuno Ferreira and Luis Meireles},
    title={Vital-Jacket®: A wearable wireless vital signs monitor for patients' mobility in cardiology and sports},
    proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
    proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
    year={2010},
    month={6},
    keywords={wearable electronics; cardiology; sports; MDD42/93/CE certified.},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.899}
}

Joao P. Silva Cunha
Bernardo Cunha
Antonio Sousa Pereira
William Xavier
Nuno Ferreira
Luis Meireles
Year: 2010
Vital-Jacket®: A wearable wireless vital signs monitor for patients' mobility in cardiology and sports
PERVASIVEHEALTH
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.899

Joao P. Silva Cunha¹^,*, Bernardo Cunha¹^,*, Antonio Sousa Pereira¹^,*, William Xavier²^,*, Nuno Ferreira²^,*, Luis Meireles²^,*

1: IEET A/Dep. Electronics, Telecomm. and Informatics, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
2: Biodevices S.A., Aveiro, Portugal

*Contact email: jcunha@ieeta.pt, mbc@ieeta.pt, asp@ieeta.pt, william@biodevices.pt, nuno.ferreira@biodevices.pt, luis.meireles@biodevices.pt

Abstract

The Vital Jacket® (VJ) is a wearable vital signs monitoring system that joins textiles with microelectronics. After several years of development within the university lab, it has been licensed to a start-up company. Its evolutions have focused on cardiology and sports and scaled down from a jacket to a single T-shirt. The VJ manufacturing process has recently been certified to comply with the standards ISO9001 and ISO13485 and the cardiology version was approved as a Medical Device for the European market compliant with the MDD directive 42/93/CE, holding the CE1011 mark. The authors intend to wear VJs during the days of the congress to demonstrate its usefulness in first hand and will exemplify the different scenarios of use of this innovative wearable intelligent garment.

Keywords: wearable electronics; cardiology; sports; MDD42/93/CE certified.

Published: 2010-06-07

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.899