Health monitoring via smart textiles

Biochemical sensing techniques compatible with integration in to textiles! will sound interesting to textile techies. This is what BIOTEX Project, a specific targeted research and innovation project and a part of the sixth framework programme of the European commission.

BIOTEX is trying to integrate health monitoring tools into textiles to bring the benefits of safety and comfort to the users. Instrumented clothes will provide remote monitoring of vital signs, diagnostics to improve early illness detection and metabolic disorder and benefits of reduction in medical social costs to the citizen

The project aims at developing dedicated biochemical-sensing techniques compatible with integration into textile. This goal represents a complete breakthrough, which allows for the first time the monitoring of body fluids via sensors distributed on a textile substrate and performing biochemical measurements.