Textile-Friendly Interconnection between Wearable Measurement Instrumentation and Sensorized Garments-Initial Performance Evaluation for Electrocardiogram Recordings
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2019

The interconnection between hard electronics and soft textiles remains a noteworthy challenge in regard to the mass production of textile-electronic integrated products such as sensorized garments. The current solutions for this challenge usually have problems with size, flexibility, cost, or complexity of assembly. In this paper, we present a solution with a stretchable and conductive carbon nanotube (CNT)-based paste for screen printing on a textile substrate to produce interconnectors between electronic instrumentation and a sensorized garment. The prototype connectors were evaluated via electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings using a sensorized textile with integrated textile electrodes. The ECG recordings obtained using the connectors were evaluated for signal quality and heart rate detection performance in comparison to ECG recordings obtained with standard pre-gelled Ag/AgCl electrodes and direct cable connection to the ECG amplifier. The results suggest that the ECG recordings obtained with the CNT paste connector are of equivalent quality to those recorded using a silver paste connector or a direct cable and are suitable for the purpose of heart rate detection.

wearable technology

textile-electronic integration

conductive polymers

smart textiles

Författare

Fernando Seoane

Högskolan i Borås

Karolinska universitetssjukhuset

Karolinska Institutet

Azadeh Soroudi

Högskolan i Borås

Ke Lu

Chalmers, Elektroteknik, Signalbehandling och medicinsk teknik

David Nilsson

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Marie Nilsson

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Farhad Abtahi

Karolinska Institutet

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

Mikael Skrifvars

Högskolan i Borås

Sensors

1424-8220 (ISSN) 1424-3210 (eISSN)

Vol. 19 20 4426

Ämneskategorier

Medicinsk laboratorie- och mätteknik

Annan medicinteknik

Textil-, gummi- och polymermaterial

DOI

10.3390/s19204426

PubMed

31614859

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