Hexoskin, a smart health connected t-shirt for sport

February 12, 2020

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Hexoskin. Remember this name, because it is the brand new promising smart health connected t-shirt. True exo-skin, this 2.0 garment captures many of your vital signs and transmits them directly to your tablet or smartphone. Speed, calories, heart rate and volume of air you breathe are some examples of the data you will be able to access with Hexoskin.

UPDATE JANUARY 21, 2020: Marketing in France scheduled for mid-February 2020 on the official website. T-shirt: 169 euros. Recorder box: 230 euros. A total of 399 euros.

As smart health connected objects mature, their technology is refined and gives birth to new products. More and more, we are discovering objects that would have been unimaginable ten years ago. This is the case withHexoskin, the new smart health connected t-shirt mainly intended for professional athletes.

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What's this ?

Similar to Body Connect, the Hexoskin is a smart health connected t-shirt filled with microsensors of different kinds (we'll come back to this). This means that once the garment is put on, all of your vital signs will be recorded by a module fixed to the tissue. And since this t-shirt is primarily smart health connected, your personal data can be viewed at any time on your smartphone or tablet, thanks to a dedicated free application.

If you are imagining a piece of cloth stuffed with huge electrodes and wires all more disturbing than each other, I will stop you right away. Carré Technologies, the Quebec firm at the origin of Hexoskin, has everything planned. This smart health connected t-shirt is designed to be comfortable from the outset and do not hinder the effort. Optimized for heat and humidity control, the fabric used (from Italian manufacturer) remains light, breathes and dries quickly. The seams are smooth and have been designed not to scratch the user, who can completely use the Hexoskin under other pieces of equipment (both sponsor jerseys and hockey pieces). It can however be self-sufficient at any time, even at night, since its reflective logos will give you visibility in the dark.

Regarding electronic details, the Hexoskin module, which analyzes your vital signs, has a approximately 14 hours of battery life. It has a secure Bluetooth connection to its dedicated free application, compatible Android and iOS. Theaccess to the cloud and saving your data is free, to which we can add the possibility of saving them in delayed mode (more than 150 hours usable).

Finally, even if it is more like a machine than a t-shirt, this smart health connected garment made in Canada is perfectly machine washable.

How it works ?

From a technical point of view, how does it go about measuring all of this? In fact, the principle is rather simple and goes through three kinds of sensors:

  • of the activity sensors, who will record the trips (in three dimensions) and theacceleration of the user. It can also measure the number and cadence of steps and establish the number of calories consumed during each activity.

  • of the heart sensors, in the form of textile electrodes, which can act aselectrocardiogram and deliver the precise heart rate of the wearer of the smart health connected t-shirt (in number of beats per minute) as well as the analysis of variations in these rhythms.

  • of the respiratory sensors, via the presence of two rings present at the level of the rib cage and the abdominals. By analyzing the user's chest and abdominal breathing data, the Hexoskin can calculate the number of breaths per minute and the volume of air consumed (in L / min).

All this data is measured and sent a few hundred times every second to its dedicated application, which acts as an interface. This allows you to have a direct access to vital signs at any time.

What's the point ?

Measuring a user's vital signs is good, but to do what? The potential uses are numerous, especially in the health field. It was not the choice of Carré Technologies, which preferred to optimize its smart health connected t-shirt for the attention of professional athletes.

Thus, it is possible for a coach to know every detail of the physical condition of his athletes, such as measuring his improvements or detecting exhaustions due to too hard training. Coaches can keep an eye on the breathing, stress, fatigue and recovery levels of many athletes. In addition, thanks to precise graphics, it is possible to determine the key point in training that the athlete has yet to work on, both physical and respiratory. In short, the biofeedback operated by the Hexoskin helps coaches improve the performance and well-being of their athletes by accurately measuring and illustrating their progress.

But that's not all, because the Hexoskin module also comes with a sleep monitoring. Its functionalities: calculate the total sleep time, its efficiency (in%), the changes and durations of each position as well as the average heart and respiratory rates. Again, no need to know anything about it or to perform complicated analyzes: the application of this smart health connected t-shirt interprets all this information for you and delivers it to you in a clear and colorful way.

In conclusion, recognize that this is a product which we certainly do not know the exact precision, but which illustrates the start of a new era in the world of smart health connected clothing. Sunday athletes will probably not see the point (especially given the $ 400 you will have to spend to acquire this smart health connected t-shirt) but there is no doubt that this kind of 2.0 clothing will become more common in the future. And therefore, much more accessible.

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