Industrial project ramp down of iPack 1, KIWOK

Purpose and goal

The objective was to implement new technologies for the acquisition of physiological signals in normal daily life, in order to quickly detect incipient illness, but also for already diagnosed disease that requires, or required medical or surgical treatment. Within the project, a T-shirt with integrated textile ECG electrodes for recording of a three lead ECG was developed. The development included technologies for connecting clothing based technology with data acquisition electronics, textile interface cables and classical electronics.

Expected results and effects

The result is a prototype T-shirt tested and shown to work well. The shirt is simple to use and it produces a three lead ECG of good quality. Proof of concept is thus demonstrated, and through further testing by prospective users we expect to get feedback for the design of a model that can be produced for a larger scale user study.

Planned approach and implementation

Work within the project has been characterized by a continuous dialogue between the problem owner Kiwok and the researchers at KTH. In these dialogues KIWOKs requirements have met the technical possibilities, and goals for the prototype development has been established, implemented and evaluated before the next stage of prototype development. Everything in an iterative process of development steps, evaluation and feedback for new development step.