Sensor Placement and Wearable Garments: Considerations for Medical and Fitness Data

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Le, Kilara

• The drive to develop new applications for wearable technology continues to bring together multidisciplinary groups of people who are fusing existing technologies with newly developed ones. Monitoring of health data, such as temperature, heart rate, and muscle activity are some of the more useful applications of this genre of devices, but there are many possibilities to capture data. The key is being able as to obtain it accurately and decipher the data into useful feedback.
  As new problem solvers come onto the wearables scene, there are more examples of sensors being integrated into sewn products, which brings its own set of design challenges. Individuals involved in research, product development, and manufacturing offered some insights surrounding integrating sensors into wearable devices.

• Date created

  2017-08-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Chemistry
  • Engineering
  • Materials Science

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-46md-a356

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