Abstract
Wearable sensors based on soft polymer sensors are now beginning to crop up in the market place. They are now surfacing in the areas of sport applications, healthcare, and public safety. The demand for wearable sensors are at present driven mainly by the medical devices sector. However, wearable sensors penetration of the medical devices sector will be slow as reliability and stability of testing will require close scrutiny. Nevertheless, wearable sensors are becoming common in the area of non-critical continuous biophysical monitoring, spurred on by the demand for contextual information by various audiences. Wearable sensors in the medical devices sector come in various offerings, like measuring a person's frequency or BPM, respiration measurements, and many others.
Original language | English |
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Pages | 50-56 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Volume | 125 |
No. | 3 |
Specialist publication | Textile Journal |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2008 |