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Publishing their results in the npg magazine Flexible Electronics under the title “An Electronic Textile Fit Suit Suited for Large-Scale Spatio-Temporal Physiological Detection in Vivo”, the researchers show a so-called Electronic Textile Formatable Suit (E-TeCS), in effect A novel type of compression garment that allows intimate contact between electronics and skin, with temperature sensors and accelerometers distributed throughout the garment. They also demonstrated that such E-TeCS can be used for distributed wireless physiological detection, such as temperature, respiration, and heart rate detection, and monitoring of physical activity around the user during physical exercise.
Garments with a built-in sensor, which are machine washable, can be customized to fit the body of the person wearing them. The researchers anticipate that this type of detection could be used to monitor people who are sick, either at home or in the hospital, as well as athletes or astronauts.
“We may have commercially available electronic parts or custom laboratory-made electronic products embedded in the textiles we wear every day, creating compliant garments,” says Canan Dagdeviren, Assistant Professor of Career Development at LG Electronics at Media Arts and Sciences at MIT. “These are customizable, so we can make garments for anyone who needs to have some physical data about their body, such as temperature, respiratory rate, etc.”
