Smart Clothing (YuCloth)

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The detection of biosignals by using a comfortable material is important to improve human health. This product presents a complete wearable system with smart clothing for the long-term monitoring of lead-I ECG and respiratory signals. The proposed system is divided into three parts, including biosignal-monitoring clothing, a biosignal acquisition device, and a software platform. The smart clothing integrates fabric-based ECG dry electrodes, conductive fiber traces, and a high-sensitivity capacitive respiration transducer to sense the biosignals. The challenge including the integration of ECG electrodes and the respiration transducer in the clothing system to provide high-quality ECG and respiration signals for clinical use has been overcome in the proposed biosignal-monitoring clothing. The sensed signals on the smart clothing are collected in the biosignal-acquisition device through fabric-based traces and a specially designed clothing structure. Furthermore, the biosignals are processed using the biosignal-acquisition device and sent to the remote smart device through the Bluetooth module. The device according to the requirement of the front-end clothing system and the actual measurement accuracy is implemented and contributed to the reduction in the effect of motion artifact. The software platform on the smart device provides real-time biosignal monitoring and health information analysis. A highly efficient ECG QRS complex detection algorithm and respiratory-rate detection algorithm are also proposed. The ECG QRS complex detection algorithm is verified using the MIT/BIH Arrhythmia Database to demonstrate the achievement of high performance. The overall measured sensitivity, positive prediction, and error rate of the proposed algorithm are 99.86%, 99.93%, and 0.19%, respectively.

National Cheng Kung University

Due to NCKU’s rapid development, the R&D Committee has become increasingly important. In order to meet the needs of NCKU's academic research planning, integration, industry cooperation and academic cooperation, it has become an independent operating unit for practical functions. Therefore, in the 5th University Council of the 1994 academic year, the R&D Committee was renamed the Office Of R&D(ORD) after the amendment of Article 8 of NCKU’s organizational regulations. NCKU Regulations Governing the Establishment of the Office of Research and Development were approved in the 7th University Council of the same academic year. In addition to the original three divisions, the instrumentation equipment center was established for integration and planning of NCKU’s relevant instrumentation and equipment, bringing further into play the overall function of ORD, which will be more beneficial to NCKU’s teachers and students. In June 2006, the Office of International Academic was established. The Academic Cooperation Division of ORD Department was converted into the International Cooperation Division and shifted to the Office of International Academic. Original URL: History and Vision https://en.ord.ncku.edu.tw/article-history.html The copyright belongs to the author. For commercial reprints, please contact the author for authorization, and for non-commercial reprints, please indicate the source.