"There are innumerable ways the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security could integrate this system to create and maintain a more secure working environment for their first line responders."
After more than five years of research and development, the SmartShirt System is the first application of Sensatex's multiple textile patents. The light, breathable, cotton fabric has fully integrated conductive fibers that create connectivity to acquire and transfer analog physiological signals to a small personal controller.
The controller digitizes the data signals and wirelessly transmits them to a remote location where the data is received for monitoring.
The system was developed to interface with wireless communication systems using ZigBee technology so that data can be transmitted to virtually any back-end system, and designed so that it is not necessary to have a trained technician present to send or receive data.
Unlike similar products, only the Sensatex SmartShirt System combines innovative technologies in the textile, wireless, and biomedical engineering fields. Field testing of the SmartShirt System is planned for later this year.
Sensatex is also testing a one-lead EKG band and a SmartBra that would employ the same system to remotely monitor vital signs and plans to add other sensor capabilities in the future.
Early research for the SmartShirt System was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Technical Support Working Group (TSWG).
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