Smart Shirt To Monitor Astronaut’s Health
Canadian wearable technology company, Carré Tehnologies has announced a partnership with the Canadian Space Agency.
The company will provide astronaut David Saint-Jacques with its new wearable bio-monitoring system, Hexoskin.
The $2.4m agreement will see the astronaut wear Astroskin, a smart monitoring shirt on board the International Space Station.
Astroskin uses a non-invasive sensor, collecting and tracking data, monitoring heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen levels, skin temperature, sleep quality and activity level.
It will be integrated into the Space Station’s communications system via a Q7 processor card made by Montreal-based Xiphos Technologies, so that it can beam astronauts’ health metrics down to Earth.
The shirt was first tested over two years ago during a 45-day expedition in Antarctica. The men and women were monitored remotely thousands of miles away.
