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Design of a Smart Garment for Cycling

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Innovation, Engineering and Entrepreneurship (HELIX 2018)

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Given the premise that cycling encourages a healthy lifestyle and promotes wellbeing, this paper describes the design process for the development of a cycling garment, with embedded electrodes for heart rate measurement to further widen the possibilities of health and performance monitoring, in a practical and unobtrusive way. Electrodes were produced and tested, using different textile materials and techniques. Signal measurement is based on the BBB Y8YBH20 heart rate monitor and performance tests were done using the Polar Beat mobile app. Finally, a prototype of the garment is presented.

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This work is financed by FEDER funds through the Competitivity Factors Operational Programme – COMPETE, by national funds through FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology within the scope of the project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007136 and by TSSiPRO-NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000015 funded by the regional operational program NORTE 2020, under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership.

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  1. Landscapes, Heritage and Territory Laboratory, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Daniel Vieira & Bernardo Providência

  2. Centre for Textile Science and Technology, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    André Paiva, Joana Cunha & Hélder Carvalho

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  3. Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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Paiva, A., Vieira, D., Cunha, J., Carvalho, H., Providência, B. (2019). Design of a Smart Garment for Cycling. In: Machado, J., Soares, F., Veiga, G. (eds) Innovation, Engineering and Entrepreneurship. HELIX 2018. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 505. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91334-6_32

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