Chapter 10 – Wearable Electronics for Elderly Health Monitoring and Active Living

The chapter presents aspects regarding the use of wearable electronic sensors, embedded in clothing for monitoring the health of the elderly and active living. The main goal of using wearable electronics is to provide continued assistance to patients in critical situations outside hospitals. The objectives are ubiquitous monitoring, transmission and storage of data from wearable sensors to perform signal analysis processes. To this end, data from several sensors, such as temperature, humidity, respiratory rate or pulse monitoring, can today be collected using simple electronics such as Arduino board. Because of the need to place the sensors in specific locations of the body, the link between the sensors and the board must be ensured by the use of flexible semiconductors — textile stainless yarns (filamentary and spun yarns).