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Wearable Electronic Devices for Health Monitoring

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioelectronics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 17161

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Xuyuan Tao

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ENSAIT, University of Lille, Roubaix, France
Interests: embedded systems; smart textile; intelligent garment design; textile sensors
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Prof. Dr. Vladan Koncar

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ENSAIT, University of Lille, F-59100 Roubaix, France
Interests: flexible sensors and actuators; smart and e-textiles; modelling
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Dr. Cedric Cochrane

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École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textiles/Génie et Matériaux Textiles laboratory (ENSAIT/GEMTEX), 2 Allée Louis et Victor Champier, F-59100 Roubaix, France
Interests: smart textiles; textile and flexible sensors; e-textiles; textiles and flexible actuators; mechanical sensors; reliability of smart textiles; textile monitoring
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues, 

This is a Special Issue of the journal Electronics dedicated to textile-based wearable electronic devices for health monitoring, an area in which innovative work is expected to explore new frontiers and challenges, including smart clothing, e-textiles, and smart materials, as well as large-scale deployments and innovative use for healthcare monitoring applications.

In the last few years, developments in wearable computing, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence have been bringing new functionalities to textiles for health monitoring applications in our living spaces. With recent trends and research developments, electronic textiles are realized as wearable devices by several technologies such as weaving, knitting, embroidery, printing, serigraphy, and so on. The important characteristics of wearable devices for health monitoring include their launderability, stretching and flexing together with specific characteristics such as their aesthetics, and comfort and wearables. The research topics could be wearable vital signal sensors, such as ECG/EMG/EEG sensors, flexible electric circuit design, such as textile circuits, integration technology, such as welding and embroidery, and the washability issue for wearable devices.

To help bring some new insights into the development and trends of wearable electronics, the editors invite the community to support Electronics in this timely initiative by submitting new and ground-breaking papers that will constitute the roadmap of our future research.

The particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Smart clothing;
  • E-textiles;
  • IoT for wearable technology;
  • Healthcare monitoring system;
  • Wearable technology, wearable devices, and fashion electronics.

Dr. Xuyuan Tao
Prof. Dr. Vladan Koncar
Dr. Cedric Cochrane
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Electronics is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • Smart clothing
  • E-textiles
  • IoT for wearable technology
  • Healthcare monitoring system
  • Wearable technology

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Wearable and Flexible Humidity Sensor Integrated to Disposable Diapers for Wetness Monitoring and Urinary Incontinence
by Meltem Tekcin, Ersin Sayar, Mehmet Kursat Yalcin and Senem Kursun Bahadir
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 1025; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11071025 - 25 Mar 2022
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Disposable diapers are widely used by individuals with urinary incontinence. Diapers should be checked frequently for elderly, disabled, and hospital patients. Wet diapers that are not changed properly can cause health problems. The importance of electronic devices that provide warning in case of [...] Read more.
Disposable diapers are widely used by individuals with urinary incontinence. Diapers should be checked frequently for elderly, disabled, and hospital patients. Wet diapers that are not changed properly can cause health problems. The importance of electronic devices that provide warning in case of wetness is increasing in health monitoring. A disposable and wearable printed humidity sensor was designed and fabricated to detect wetness. The sensor was printed on polyamide-based taffeta label fabric by the inkjet printing method using specifically formulated PEDOT:PSS-based conductive polymer ink. The sensor sensitivity was tested under different relative humidity levels inside a controlled chamber. The resistance of the sensor decreased from 17.05 ± 0.05 MΩ to 2.09 ± 0.06 MΩ as the relative humidity increased from 35 to 100%, while the moisture value of the fabric increased from 4.8 to 23%. The response and recovery times were 42 s and 82 s. This sensor was integrated into the adult diaper to evaluate wetness. The sensor resistance change comparing to the dry state resistance (15.52 MΩ) was determined as 3.81 MΩ to 13.62 MΩ by dripping 0.1 mL to 100 mL salty water on the diaper. Due to its flexible structure and low-cost printability onto fabric, the wearable printed humidity sensor has the potential to be used as a disposable sensor for healthcare applications, particularly for urinary incontinence and capturing wetness in diapers. Full article
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LI-Care: A LabVIEW and IoT Based eHealth Monitoring System
by Kunjabihari Swain, Murthy Cherukuri, Sunil Kumar Mishra, Bhargav Appasani, Suprava Patnaik and Nicu Bizon
Electronics 2021, 10(24), 3137; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10243137 - 16 Dec 2021
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This paper presents a Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) and Internet of Things (IoT)-based eHealth monitoring system called LI-Care to facilitate the diagnosis of the health condition cost-effectively. The system measures the heart rate, body temperature, blood pressure, oxygen level, and breathing [...] Read more.
This paper presents a Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) and Internet of Things (IoT)-based eHealth monitoring system called LI-Care to facilitate the diagnosis of the health condition cost-effectively. The system measures the heart rate, body temperature, blood pressure, oxygen level, and breathing rate, and provides an electrocardiogram (ECG). The required sensors are integrated on a web-based application that keeps track of the essential parameters and gives an alarm indication if one or more physiological parameters go beyond the safe level. It also employs a webcam to obtain the patient view at any time. LabVIEW enables the effortless interfacing of various biomedical sensors with the computer and provides high-speed data acquisition and interactive visualizations. It also provides a web publishing tool to access the interactive window remotely through a web browser. The web-based application is accessible to doctors who are experts in that particular field. They can obtain the real-time reading and directly perform a diagnosis. The parameters measured by the proposed system were validated using the traditional measurement systems, and the Root Mean Square (RMS) errors were obtained for the various parameters. The maximum RMS error as a percentage was 0.159%, which was found in the temperature measurement, and its power consumption is 1 Watt/h. The other RMS errors were 0.05% in measurement of systolic pressure, 0.029% in measurement of diastolic pressure, 0.059% in measurement of breathing rate, 0.002% in measurement of heart rate, 0.076% in measurement of oxygen level, and 0.015% in measurement of ECG. The low RMS errors and ease of deployment make it an attractive alternative for traditional monitoring systems. The proposed system has potential applications in hospitals, nursing homes, remote monitoring of the elderly, non-contact monitoring, etc. Full article
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Smart E-Textile Systems: A Review for Healthcare Applications
by Shahood uz Zaman, Xuyuan Tao, Cedric Cochrane and Vladan Koncar
Electronics 2022, 11(1), 99; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11010099 - 29 Dec 2021
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E-textiles is a new hybrid field developed with the help of the integration of electronic components into our daily usage of textile products. These wearable e-textiles provide user-defined applications as well as normal textile clothing. The medical field is one of the major [...] Read more.
E-textiles is a new hybrid field developed with the help of the integration of electronic components into our daily usage of textile products. These wearable e-textiles provide user-defined applications as well as normal textile clothing. The medical field is one of the major leading areas where these new hybrid products are being implemented, and relatively mature products can be observed in the laboratory as well as in commercial markets. These products are developed for continuous patient monitoring in large-scale hospital centers as well as for customized patient requirements. Meanwhile, these products are also being used for complex medical treatments and the replacement of conventional methods. This review manuscript contains a basic overview of e-textile systems, their components, applications, and usages in the field of medical innovations. E-textile systems, integrated into customized products for medical needs, are discussed with their proposed properties and limitations. Finally, some recommendations to enhance the e-textile system’s integration into the medical field are argued. Full article
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