Hexoskin released smart shirt to monitor health

Health monitoring devices have entered the popular stage and are always pursuing wearable design, but with the newly released smart track Hexoskin, users will not need to wear any one. what.

The trend of health monitoring devices is small and wearable, but a Canadian company with help from NASA and Canadian space agency has invented a smart device that monitors power. Healthy in real time, smart shirt Hexoskin.

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Smart device to monitor health Hexoskin will change the method of normal health monitoring.

This smart shirt and real-time health monitoring device is a collection of tiny Bluetooth sensors, which will act as a sensor surface and all hidden in a pocket inside. shirt. During the course of its operation, Hexoskin will measure health indicators such as heart rate, blood pressure, footsteps, calorie consumption, breathing rate . and a range of readings. Other details and accuracy, all are monitored and displayed in real time.

And yet, the night shirt will monitor sleep, including sleeping postures, cardiac circulation and breathing. Data will be synchronized via Bluetooth for Android or iOS mobile devices, and the results will be summarized online on the "cloud" so that it can be tracked remotely.

The summary of the Hexoskin smart shirt will be uploaded to the system, where users can compare their parameters with the readings of test players in the intranet, and also can share these parameters and results for third parties or share on social networking sites Facebook, Twitter . Patent unit said, the shirt has an open API function, allowing houses programming software and applications or even adding other sensor components to the shirt.

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Hexoskin shirt is a smart device that monitors health in real time.

In addition to being a smart device to monitor health, Hexoskin is still a normal, high quality shirt, especially Hexoskin's waterproof fabric, not damaged by water, and cool and not offensive when wearing. The shirt is quite fast and has the ability to absorb sweat, similar to sports clothes. Testing showed that the fabric was quite durable and could be washed, but it is worth noting to remove the electronic components that do not have the function of resisting water before washing.

Wearing Hexoskin smart shirt is also quite easy, but due to the need to adjust the sensors and devices to the right position, it takes time for the wearer to get acquainted. The shirt had collected all the sensors and put it in a bag on Hexoskin, but there were still some parts that needed to be added and mounted on the strap so the wearer still needed to pay attention to the This component when participating in strong activities such as running and jumping, participating in intense sports activities.

With the ability to go and control at the same time more than 3000 detailed parameters of the body, it seems a bit excessive compared to the needs of ordinary people, but the shirt is a great candidate for monitoring the health of athletes or fitness enthusiasts and bodybuilders.

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Parameters are indicated by smart device health monitoring Hexoskin on mobile application.

As a smart device, the shirt still has to be battery-powered, the shirt comes with a micro-battery for up to 150 hours of running time and 14 hours for continuous data notification. The charging time of the shirt is also quite short, only 1 hour.

Hexoskin's smart-looking smart shirt is offered for $ 399 a unit, a price that is not cheap for a shirt and a smart device to monitor health , however, the shirt has changed the way The usual way of monitoring health, especially for athletes.