Imagine a garment that monitors your health, supports muscle performance, advises on posture, and keeps you warm or cool—all while remaining natural, stylish, and comfortable. Feel More Knitwear (FMK) by Pepper Vally® is making this vision a reality through the SmartEEs European Project in the period 2021-2023, merging textile sensors & paths in electronics and flexible electronics into natural wool knitwear. This revolutionary technology offers new horizons in health, wellness and sports fashion.
Feel More Knitwear (FMK) - The SmartEEs edition
The idea of combining optical and electrical sensing in the human body by incorporating them into attractive textile designs using flexible circuits and wearables, obtaining high valuable health parameters is innovative in concept.
Feel More Knitwear (FMK) - The SmartEEs edition
The idea of combining optical and electrical sensing in the human body by incorporating them into attractive textile designs using flexible circuits and wearables, obtaining high valuable health parameters is innovative in concept.
Pepper Vally®’s Feel More Knitwear (FMK) – The SmartEEs edition – is an innovative applied technology demonstrated to an e-textile piece designed to integrate health monitoring seamlessly into natural wool knitwear. Selected as one of the 44 projects under the SmartEES European Project (https://smartees.tech/), FMK SmartEEs edition showcases the potential of textile sensors & flexible electronics in wearable health technology, creating new business opportunities in wellness and fashion.
Key Health Monitoring Features
- ECG Monitoring with Natural Wool: Monitors 3-lead ECG with high precision, ensuring skin comfort through 100% hygiene safe - antimicrobial merino wool fabric.
- Arrhythmia and Respiration Rate Detection: Provides real-time monitoring for respiratory and cardiac health insights.
- User-friendly and seamless textile enhanced USB type C connection of garment to micro-Electronic Device. Patent protected by Pepper Vally® - National patent No. registration: 20220100178
- Posture and Activity Tracking: Detects body posture and movement patterns, enhancing physical activity tracking.
- Innovative Design and Comfort: Designed for a sleek, wearable look that feels natural and comfortable to wear all day by all weather changes.
Key Health Monitoring Features
- ECG Monitoring with Natural Wool: Monitors 3-lead ECG with high precision, ensuring skin comfort through 100% hygiene safe - antimicrobial merino wool fabric.
- Arrhythmia and Respiration Rate Detection: Provides real-time monitoring for respiratory and cardiac health insights.
- User-friendly and seamless textile enhanced USB type C connection of garment to micro-Electronic Device. Patent protected by Pepper Vally® - National patent No. registration: 20220100178
- Posture and Activity Tracking: Detects body posture and movement patterns, enhancing physical activity tracking.
- Innovative Design and Comfort: Designed for a sleek, wearable look that feels natural and comfortable to wear all day by all weather changes.
Innovative Research Textile Technology by Pepper Vally®
Collaborating with Blautic (https://blautic.com/), a tech company specialized in ad-hoc design of micro-electronic products based on wireless technologies and advanced sensors, Pepper Vally® leverages its expertise in textile engineering to embed conductive yarns into the fabric pattern and achieve textile sensors as part of the electronic device, as well create communication and power buses for the flexible optical electronics circuits coming from the main wearable, providing real-time health data. The garment’s sensors seamlessly knitted into the fabric, capture both ECG and PPG signals, allowing advanced data analysis via smartphone applications.
Collaborating with Blautic (https://blautic.com/), a tech company specialized in ad-hoc design of micro-electronic products based on wireless technologies and advanced sensors, Pepper Vally® leverages its expertise in textile engineering to embed conductive yarns into the fabric pattern and achieve textile sensors as part of the electronic device, as well create communication and power buses for the flexible optical electronics circuits coming from the main wearable, providing real-time health data. The garment’s sensors seamlessly knitted into the fabric, capture both ECG and PPG signals, allowing advanced data analysis via smartphone applications.
This breakthrough technology allows for:
- Non-Invasive Monitoring: Using skin-friendly, breathable wool fabric for a comfortable, skin safe & health-conscious experience.
- Wireless Data Transmission: Compact electronics transmit data wirelessly to connected devices, providing instant health insights on ECG, blood pressure (PPG technology), and posture.
- Adjustable Fit for All Body Types: Designed with natural elasticity, the garment adapts to various body shapes and sizes, ensuring inclusivity and comfort.
Electronic Garments for Advanced ECG and Body Posture Monitoring
FMK BioMonitor developed by Blautic
BioMonitor is an advanced electronic device that works with FMK’s wearable, allowing users to monitor ECG (3-lead), muscle activation (EMG), acceleration, angular velocity, and more. The BioMonitor micro-device seamlessly connects to the garment via a USB-C port, enabling comprehensive health tracking. The system through the mobile application offers values such as: heart rate (mean, maximum, minimum), arrhythmia (Lorentz plot), steps, meters, jumps, time percentage in certain postures / live positions or the analysis of recorded data. Signal analysis can be performed dynamically by applying multiple chain filters to the original IIR, FIR, and wavelet signal.
FMK BioMonitor developed by Blautic
BioMonitor is an advanced electronic device that works with FMK’s wearable, allowing users to monitor ECG (3-lead), muscle activation (EMG), acceleration, angular velocity, and more. The BioMonitor micro-device seamlessly connects to the garment via a USB-C port, enabling comprehensive health tracking. The system through the mobile application offers values such as: heart rate (mean, maximum, minimum), arrhythmia (Lorentz plot), steps, meters, jumps, time percentage in certain postures / live positions or the analysis of recorded data. Signal analysis can be performed dynamically by applying multiple chain filters to the original IIR, FIR, and wavelet signal.
Sensing features
- Acceleration
- Angular velocity
- Inclination in 3 axis
- ECG 3 Leads/EMG
- Electrode detection
- Temperature
Connector
- User-friendly and seamless textile enhanced USB type C connection of garment to micro-Electronic Device.
APP
- Android APP for manage the device and analyze the signals, store the results and export the data. Possibility for multi-patient cardiac and physical activity monitoring system with Artificial Intelligence algorithms in collaboration with cardiologists, hospitals and health IoT platforms.
Competitive advantages and Market opportunities
FMK merges the natural qualities of merino wool with advanced health-monitoring technology to create a washable, wearable solution for wellness. The garment’s modular design accommodates extended wear, enhancing comfort and versatility. FMK’s groundbreaking transformation of electronic sensors to partially textile sensors & path intersection as well as the integration of optical sensors makes it a game-changer in the smart textiles market, creating valuable B2B and R2B partnership opportunities.
FMK merges the natural qualities of merino wool with advanced health-monitoring technology to create a washable, wearable solution for wellness. The garment’s modular design accommodates extended wear, enhancing comfort and versatility. FMK’s groundbreaking transformation of electronic sensors to partially textile sensors & path intersection as well as the integration of optical sensors makes it a game-changer in the smart textiles market, creating valuable B2B and R2B partnership opportunities.
FMK is ready for R2B projects, offering a robust suite of bio-monitor features and wellness solutions for a healthier, more natural lifestyle in the growing field of e-textiles and wearable wellness garments.
