Could a ‘smart T-shirt’ save your life? Université Laval technology monitors breathing

Could a 'smart T-shirt' save your life? Université Laval technology monitors breathing
Researchers develop t-shirt embedded respiratory sensor, hopeful for future hospital applications
Comfort is the utmost priority; something completely discreet that doesn't require any electrodes,” explained Dr. Stepan Gorgutsa, a Laval University physicist and researcher. Similar technology exists to measure heart rate, but until now, there was

Researchers in Canada have created a smart T-shirt that monitors the wearer's respiratory rate in real time, an advance that could help diagnose or monitor a range of conditions. The T-shirt – developed at Université Laval's Faculty of Science and

This Smart T-shirt Monitors Your Breathing Rate in Real Time

Researchers from the Université Laval in Canada have developed a novel respiration sensor built into a cotton t-shirt, with hopes that future versions could allow hospital patients to be comfortably monitored while free to be mobile. The sensor is …

MONTREAL (EON) – Researchers at Université Laval's Center for Optics, Photonics and Laser (COPL) have created an intelligent garment that allows the user to measure the respiratory rate of the wearer remotely and in real time. This breakthrough

Researchers at Université Laval in Quebec City have created a smart T-shirt that monitors the wearer's breathing, Friday, May 19, 2017. Jean-Vincent Verville/Global News. What is this? Sponsored content is written by Global News' editorial staff … . A team of researchers from Laval University developed a T-shirt that tracks respiration in real time. We live in a world of fitness tracking. We have wearable technology that tracks our steps, heart rates, calories burned and more. We have apps on our … . Researchers at Université Laval's Faculty of Science and Engineering and its Center for Optics, Photonics, and Lasers have created a smart T-shirt that monitors the wearer's respiratory rate in real time. This innovation, the details of which are …

Some mechanical and electromagnetic properties of the antenna are modified during inspiration, which makes it possible to determine the respiratory rate. The best results have been obtained when the antenna is deployed in the form of a spiral.

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