The design and development of a wearable posture monitoring vest

This study presents the design and development of a new textile based intelligent wearable vest for real-time multi-posture monitoring and warning of urgency through the cooperation of the Engineering School at Chang Gung University and Taiwan Textile Research Institute (TTRI). With the system, it offers a high portability, low cost, and indoor/outdoor solution suitable for long-term health care usage at home for health promotion, healthy aging assessment, and health abnormality alert about the human postures.