Design and Development of a IoT based Flexible and Wearable T-Shirt for Monitoring Breathing Rate

Respiratory rate monitoring is important to detect sudden and abnormal clinical events. Patients with chronic breathing problems will have to be monitored at all times. This paper highlights the use of wearable sensors. Existing devices are in the form of a belt or will have to be temporarily attached to parts of the thorax or the nostrils. The proposed shirt houses the sensors as a part of the cloth. This removes the complexities and increases the comfort level for the user. The T-shirt can be used to detect various respiratory disorders like obstructive sleep apnea, asthma, wheezing, cough and sneeze while standing, running and jumping, sleeping and extreme bending.