Summary:

In order to monitor and protect patients in their own homes or in care facilities, without them having to visit a doctor's practice, doctors need precise information on key vital signs such as heart rate, ECG, blood pressure, blood sugar, lactate or core body temperature.

 

The SeSMoVit project is researching how intelligent textile products can help to achieve this.

The following questions, among others, are the focus of the project:

 

• Which types of clothing and fabric fibres are suitable for this purpose?

• Where on the body can and should sensors be placed?

• How are the recorded signals processed and transmitted to the relevant places?

• How is data protection ensured?

• Which signals actually indicate an emergency?

 

The focus is on sensor-based measurement methods for analysing the status

and dynamics of the human body, as well as on almost invisible sensors that

can be integrated into and onto textile fibres.

 

The aim of the project is to develop a sensor-based textile system – SeSMoVit-A (sensor-based protection and monitoring systems for vitality and

mobility in old age) – that enables effective monitoring and predictive care.

The innovative core lies in the interdisciplinary,

collaborative work of the partners and in the comprehensive

networking and evaluation of the relevant vital parameters.