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Smart Sock and Resistivity Measurement in Textile Materials

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New Trends in Disruptive Technologies, Tech Ethics and Artificial Intelligence (DiTTEt 2021)

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The design and development of wearable biosensor systems for health monitoring has attracted much attention in the scientific community and industry in recent years. This article presents a preliminary study on the design of a smart sock for diabetic patients. This smart sock will allow monitoring of the diabetic patient’s health status and temperature levels using foot temperature sensors. The detected vital signs will be transmitted to a dedicated transmitter/receiver pair, such as a PC, PDA, or cell phone. It would allow patients to have real-time information on their health status, including foot temperature levels and therefore management of their diet and/or medication As the market demand for medical information increases, this smart sock will provide an important part of the answer for patients. With the realization of this smart sock, we have seen the need to measure the electrical resistance in the textile materials, as these are the elements that will be in contact with the feet of diabetic patients.

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This work was supported by national funds through the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) by the project UIDB/05064/2020 (VALORIZA – Research Centre for Endogenous Resource Valorization), and Al Proyeto: Uso de algoritmos y protocolos de comunicación en dispositivos con énfasis en la privacidad de los datos.

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  1. Department of Applied Physics - Faculty of Science, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    José Torreblanca González

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering - Faculty of Science, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Raúl García Ovejero & Lidia Rozas Izquierdo

  3. Expert Systems and Applications Lab - ESALAB, Faculty of Science, University of Salamanca, Plaza de Los Caídos S/n, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    José Torreblanca González, Raúl García Ovejero, Lidia Rozas Izquierdo & Luís Augusto Silva

  4. Research Centre for Endogenous Resource Valorization, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, 7300-555, Portalegre, Portugal

    Valderi Reis Quietinho Leithardt

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González, J.T., Ovejero, R.G., Izquierdo, L.R., Silva, L.A., Leithardt, V.R.Q. (2022). Smart Sock and Resistivity Measurement in Textile Materials. In: de Paz Santana, J.F., de la Iglesia, D.H., López Rivero, A.J. (eds) New Trends in Disruptive Technologies, Tech Ethics and Artificial Intelligence. DiTTEt 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1410. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87687-6_26

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