Cardiwear: domestic smart Shirt electrocardiograph

Activity wearable electronics manufacturers is growing, as demand grows among users who want to get more and more intelligent devices. In this case it is clear that various manufacturers try to embody original ideas that make products such producers different from competitors' products.

Not so long ago the idea smart clothes that, apart from the usual functions, can work as a monitoring activity, heart rate monitor, foot pod. This makes sense, since the concept of 2 to 1, the smart device + clothes, often has the advantage over the traditional scheme of wearing smart devices. Heart rate monitor, fitness tracker, and other devices can be forgotten, drown or used improperly. But his own clothes difficult to forget.

Russian developers offer their own implementation of smart clothes, smart shirt Cardiwear . Now T-shirt is finished and will soon be presented to the general public.

Opportunities Cardiwear

Shirt equipped with an electronic module with multiple sensors by which replaces the usual wear electrocardiograph, a pedometer, a detector of sleep quality and several devices. T-shirts, except sensors, equipped with a small device (about the size of a stick), this device is placed in a special pocket.

Cardiwear takes readings of cardiac activity on three channels of ECG, and sends the data to the processing in a mobile application where the information comes in the "cloud».

Access to their data can provide unauthorized users, such as a doctor or trainer. Service Cardiwear designed so that heart disease can be automatically identified at the wound stage, owing to a special algorithm.

Data is transmitted to the mobile device by Bletooth.

Washable t-shirt with all its contents, in standard mode without fear of damaging anything. However, the same unit size of a stick will still have to pull out of the pockets, he keeps himself on the data collected for 7 days. By the way, this device works offline just over a week.

The project team



Sometimes you can see how sometimes a good idea to wither on the vine because of attempts to implement this idea amateurs. About team Cardiwear not say this, it includes straight 6 engineers, graduates of famous universities as Baumanka Radiofakultet and Nizhny Novgorod University.

All team members have worked and are working in the specialty, so that the luggage of experience - quite significant. Among other things, the team also includes professionals who work in tech giants: Samsung, Intel, Cisco.

When can I buy?

Now the guys collect funds for the project, and if all goes well, T-electrocardiograph reach the market.

As for the market, the team sees three main areas:

1. Hospitals, nursing home. Such clothing will allow doctors without a personal examination of the patient to carry your dates for the treatment of data;

2. Fitness athletes. And the amateurs and professionals can use smart clothes in order to control its own activity that will allow for the rational planning of training.

3. Niche markets. T-Shirts can be used to monitor the status of employees of critical areas, including aviation, railway and others.

Source: habrahabr.ru/company/medgadgets/blog/237303/