Design and Evaluation of Smart Textile Systems for Sports Monitoring and Health Assessment
Hao Deng, Pengfei Deng · idd3 · 2026
This study evaluates a smart textile system designed for physiological and motion monitoring in sports, showing promising results in estimating pulse trends.
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Why this matters
Key findings
- The system integrates conductive yarns for sensing physiological data.
- It estimates pulse-related trends with high accuracy (R2 of 0.94).
- The system captures respiratory variations and motion responses.
- MAE values for pulse estimates were 1.4, 2.1, and 3.5 BPM across activity levels.
- It offers a non-invasive alternative to ECG or PPG methods.
What's new
The integration of conductive yarns into a flexible textile platform for indirect physiological monitoring in sports is a novel approach.
Limitations
The system does not directly measure heart rate using ECG or PPG methods, relying instead on resistance variation.
Commercial context
The technology is still in the evaluation phase and has not yet been commercialized.
Publication
- Publisher
- idd3
- Publication date
- April 27, 2026
- Research type
- Paper
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