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Australia:Smart Tags on Smart Fabrics keep health on track |
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2004-9-8
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Electronic tags are used to track prisoners on home detention, and are now increasingly used on patients with a tendency to wander the end to the doctor''s home visit. The tags are alert a base if an "invisible electronic fence" is transgressed, developed to also monitor vital statistics such as body temperature, heart and activity rates.
Smart tags would provide remote wellbeing monitoring, beaming data back to doctors which reduced the need for visits, according to Paul Keen, the director of Abakus Elmo-Tech, which markets tracking products from Dmatek.The tags are used in NSW prisons for five years and more recently in nursing homes.
The tags are tracked with wristwatch with tracking, was equipped with a number of unused inputs for sensors. The CSIRO says smart tag technology is the beginning in future intelligent fabrics would replace simple tracking devices. A wash-and-wear intelligent shirt, would be able to monitor vital signs and send the data back to the doctor.
An electrical circuit fairly easy to incorporate into the fibre.The fabric itself could produce power from the sun''s rays than a battery.The application on battle field would see the fabric clot any bleeding and save lives of soldiers in the field.
"Maybe the fabric itself will provide first aid"
He predicted that smart fabrics would be available in five years. |
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