A highly integrated wearable multi-parameter monitoring system for athletes

Abstract

A new system for the monitoring of a large set of physiological, kinetics, and environmental parameters is presented. In particular, this paper focuses on a first small-scale verification of the ECG and chest impedance signals. Comparative results with gold-reference devices on three subjects following a protocol including resting, walking, cycling, jogging and fast running are presented. The initial results showed that the developed system provides high quality signals comparable with gold-reference devices but in a highly integrated and wearable way. Moreover, qualitative assessment confirmed the high comfort of the system that features dry electrode sensors easily detachable from a layer-1 shirt for maintenance (e.g., shirt washing, recharge of sensors). © 2011 Springer-Verlag.