The Study of the Electrocardiography Monitoring for the Elderly Based on Smart Clothes

Aging society leads more demands on health care system. Study shows that cardiovascular diseases are the most common and threatening diseases to the elderly. Moreover, more and more elderly live alone recently. Therefore, a total solution for elderly homecare leads the way. In this study, we develop smart clothes to record 3 lead electrocardiography (ECG). Our system consists of (1) the conductive fiber clothes with four electrodes to acquire physiological signals, (2) a gateway to digitize, process and upload raw data to the server, and (3) the service server to analyze data and make a health profile. The system had been applied to the elderly community to evaluate performance. The experiment results show the average accuracy of ECG data is 86.82%. Thirty-five volunteers (age > 65, 15 male and 20 female) feel the smart clothes comfortable and easy to use than the traditional medical device.