Integration of biosignal monitoring in sports clothing

• Author(s): Catarino, André P. ; Rocha, A. M. ; Carvalho, Helder ; Montagna, Gianni ; Dias, M. J. ; Covas, Helder ; Machado, R. ; Villas-Boas, J. P. ; Duarte, J. ; Ribeiro, S. ; Machado, L. ; Borgonovo, M. ; Fonseca, Pedro ; Correia, Miguel Velhote
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/21811
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): e-textiles; Biosignal monitoring; Sports clothing
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

The present paper gives an overview of the developments achieved in biosignal and sports performance monitoring in the context of the Bioswim project. The Bioswim project aims at developing technologies for integration of conventional as well as embedding novel textile sensors for the measurement, recording and transmission of biometric and performance parameters for athlete monitoring. The study object has been a swimsuit.