A wearable sensor for measuring sweat rate

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1557-1558

  Salvo, Pietro ^a   Di Francesco, Fabio ^b   Costanzo, Daniele ^b   Ferrari, Carlo ^c   Trivella, Maria Giovanna ^c   De Rossi, Danilo ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Sweat rate sensor; wearable system

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS; MONITORING SENSORS; MONITORING TECHNIQUES; PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS; RATE SENSORS; TEXTILE SUBSTRATES; WEARABLE SENSORS; WEARABLE SYSTEMS;

MONITORING; TEXTILES; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

SENSORS;

EID: 77955366349     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2010.2046634     Document Type: Article

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