A Sensor-Fitted Suit to Analyze Stroke Patients' Movements
From: ACM TechNews - 01/11/2017

A multi-sensor-equipped suit could help physicians monitor stroke patients'
daily life activities and motor function after being released from the
hospital. The INTERACTION project is a joint European study that has tested
an unobtrusive and modular system of 41 sensors that can be worn under a
stroke patient's clothes, collecting data on muscle strength, stretch, and
force. "There has long been a great need for systems like this, but the
technology simply was not ready," says Bart Klaassen, a doctoral student at
the University of Twente in the Netherlands. "That is now changing rapidly,
thanks to rapid developments in the fields of battery technology, wearables,
smart e-textiles, and big data analysis." The INTERACTION suit was tested on
patients over a period of three months, during which data was transmitted,
stored, and processed. The system's portable transmitter relayed all
information gathered to data processing servers at the University of Twente.
Health insurance companies and healthcare professionals were involved in the
project from the beginning, indicating the commercial potential of the
technology.

Read the entire article at:
http://cordis.europa.eu/news/rcn/126621_en.html

Link:
Training and monitoring of daily-life physical INTERACTION with the environment after stroke
http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/100699_en.html