Project Kick-off for "Smart Sensors A – Textile Integrated Body Hugging Sensors"
Last Updated (Wednesday, 26 January 2011 17:30)
With increased age and increased life expectancy, the medical care needs of elderly and physically disabled individuals likewise increases. In turn, the demand for preventive measures, diagnostics, therapy and rehabilitation, allowing for a self sufficient lifestyle, has also increased.
Body hugging textiles with integrated sensors can support physically disabled individuals in their daily activities and such can provide a greater sense of security. With the help of sensors, information concerning body temperature, respiratory frequency or blood sugar levels can e.g. be recorded and, in emergencies, could be transmitted to a home emergency hotline. In addition to the requirement of convenient handling, it is important that the sensors willbe integrated into clothing or other objects of daily use, in an unobtrusive fashion, so that integrated aid system finds user acceptance.
The partners of the continuing sub-project „IS-03 Smart Sensors A – Textile Integrated Body Hugging Sensors” which runs through 2015 within the Medical Valley EMN e.V. top cluster group are building a comprehensive test environment for such innovative telemedical products. Together with Netscouts gemeinnützige GmbH, which is acting as Project Coordinator, participating partners include BRK Nürnberg (Bavarian Red Cross Nuremberg), Corscience GmbH & Co-KG, Starringer Wearable Solutions, Infineon Technologies AG, BIJO-Data GmbH as well as the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits.
On 12 January 2011 the Kick-off meeting took place, during which the project partners presented their tasked work stages through the first milestone set for March of this year. Netscouts is working on the requirements analysis, which will assist in evaluating target group expectations from such aid systems and how handling can be structured for everyday use. Moreover, Netscouts will synchronise the actual technical status with the requirements analysis and will provide data for the specification phase.
