Hospital/Nursing Home Monitoring

Sensatex will partner with patient monitor manufacturers to
develop a Smart Shirt System that transmits vital signs data
either with or without wire to the vendor’s stationary or
portable monitoring unit(s). This includes retrofitting monitors
already manufactured and sold by the vendor to hospitals,
nursing homes, or skilled nursing facilities. By acting
as a single platform for all sensory components, the Shirt
will facilitate the placement of sensors on the patient and
will either entirely eliminate or greatly reduce the number
of wires connecting the patient to the monitor. The sensor
suite for this product will include 3-lead EKG, pulse oximetry
and respiration rate. 209

Sleep Studies

Despite a vast number of U.S. adults with sleep disorders,
such as adult apnea, insomnia, and narcolepsy, only a small
fraction seek diagnosis due largely to the discomfort and
inconvenience of hospital-based testing. The Smart Shirt
System offers test subjects a comfortable and unobtrusive
means by which to have their vital signs monitored and
transmitted for the diagnosis of these disorders.

Infant Vital Signs Monitoring

The Smart Shirt System will support the unobtrusive collection
of vital signs data (EKG, respiration rate) for the detection
of various disorders in infants, such as apnea,
prematurity, respiratory synctial virus, gastroesophageal
reflux, and seizure disorders. The data collected off the
infants’ body is transmitted wirelessly to a processing location
that will utilize analysis software provided by an existing
infant monitor manufacturer.

Infant Vital Signs Monitoring

The Smart Shirt System will support the unobtrusive collection
of vital signs data (EKG, respiration rate) for the detection
of various disorders in infants, such as apnea,
prematurity, respiratory synctial virus, gastroesophageal
reflux, and seizure disorders. The data collected off the
infants’ body is transmitted wirelessly to a processing location
that will utilize analysis software provided by an existing
infant monitor manufacturer.