Weft-knitted strain sensor for monitoring respiratory rate and its electro-mechanical modeling

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 110-122

  Atalay, Ozgur ^a,b   Kennon, William Richard ^a   Demirok, Erhan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Milli E itim Bakanli i   (Turkey)

^c Edt Enerji Donusum Teknolojileri Ltd Sti   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Breathing frequency; Conductive yarn; Electro mechanical modelling; Knitted sensor; Respiration belt; Silver coated nylon yarn; Textile based strain sensor

Indexed keywords

NYLON TEXTILES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SMART TEXTILES; TEXTILES; WOOL; YARN;

BREATHING FREQUENCY; CONDUCTIVE YARNS; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL; NYLON YARN; STRAIN SENSORS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 84910095822     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2014.2339739     Document Type: Article

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