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Wearable Systems |
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Wearable applications are devices and systems that are worn on the body or integrated into clothes being used for several user applications such as:
- Positioning and Navigating
- User Guide and Augmented reality
These applications have the following challenges in common
- Battery powered requiring low power design and power management
- Size and weight shall be minimized as far as reasonable
Art of Technology is well prepared to address the above and other requirements for a successful wearable system design and development.
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AMON
Wearable medical "monitoring and alert" system targeting high risk cardiac patients
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Wearable Medical Systems
Personal medical systems that collect, monitor and/or evaluate human vital signs such as: heart rate, heart rhythm, ECG, blood pressure, O2 blood saturation, skin perspiration, body temperature etc.
A wearable device is integrated into a belt worn device, into a mobile phone, into the clothes, built into a wrist watch, built as a wrist monitor device or placed behind the ear.
For communication with other devices or a local infrastructure Zigbee, Bluetooth or proprietary ISM band Standards might be used. For long range communication only power consuming GSM/UMTS cellular infrastructure is available.
One of the challenges is sensor technology because often the well known sensor from hospital and physician devices cannot be used or require major adaptations. |
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Medical Device
Medical monitoring device with novel new sensors ... »
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Positioning and Navigating
GPS receivers can be integrated into wrist watches and in mobile phones. In addition to position these devices might be used for direction guidance or context sensitive information (e.g. leaving or entering a specified area). The interaction, however, is limited as long as no large display is included in the devices.
A suitable application without display is position logging by means of miniaturized GPS data loggers.
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GPS Data-Logger (Pigeon)
World’s smallest GPS Data-Logger in 2006
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User Guide and Augmented Reality
A head mounted display, projecting images in parallel with reality, and a pointing device are combined as user guide for complex repair and maintenance tasks. With additional sensors, looking direction, distance to a selected item etc. added to the users view provides augmented reality.
Wearable computing
The vision behind Wearable Computing is that a mobile computer should not just be a machine that we put into our pocket when we plan on doing some office work while on the road. Instead it will be an integral part of our every day outfit (hence wearable), always operational and equipped to assist us in dealing with a wide range of situations. Just imagine a tourist arriving in a foreign city. As soon as he leaves the train his wearable computer contacts the local tourist office and compiles a list of suitable nearby hotels. It then guides the tourist towards the chosen hotel. The directions are integrated into the tourist's view of the real world using a see through computer display in his sunglasses. The display is also used to show information on landmarks and restaurants passed on the way to the hotel.
Art of Technology supported Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich to develop a belt integrated computer QBIC.
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QBIC
Integration of a full Linux computer into the buckle of a belt ... »
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