Principal Investigator at ASE: Prof. Jukka Lekkala
Duration of the project: 1.10.2010 - 31.12.2011
This project is a follow-up for the earlier Presens project and the aims and topics are the same to a great extent. An external pressure against body due compression garments or different clothing accessories like bandages has increasing number of applications in physiological and medical therapies, more and more also in sports wear. The controllability of the pressure against body tissue and the facts about the amount of pressure plays very important role in these applications. Knowing and controlling the pressure is important also in many intelligent clothing applications where different sensors and electrodes are on skin contact measuring medical variables from the wearer.
This research project merges methods and technologies of measurement and information technology, biomedical engineering and also materials and textile technologies. The project utilizes the technological improvements made in the earlier projects and adjacent research [1]. The main R&D topics are the following:
• inductively coupled pressure sensors for the compression garment application
• pressure effects on body tissues and the measurement technologies associated
• the pressure related behavior of electrode-skin interface
Funding:
Tekes, Lymed Oy, CorusFit Oy, Pikotec Oy and Peltonen Ski Oy
Personnel at ASE:
Timo Salpavaara
Jarmo Verho
Cooperation organizations and units:
Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME)
Department of Materials Science (MOL)
References:
T. Salpavaara, J. Verho, P. Kumpulainen, J. Lekkala. Wireless interrogation techniques for sensors utilizing inductively coupled resonance circuits, Procedia Engineering, 5. (2010) 216-219