SolunumWear: A Smart Textile System for Dynamic Respiration Monitoring Across Various Postures

We introduce SolunumWear, a multi-sensory e-textile system designed for respiration in daily life settings, addressing the gap in continuous, real-world respiration event monitoring. Leveraging a textile pressure sensor belt to capture chest movements and a wireless data acquisition system, SolunumWear offers a promising solution for both medical and wellness applications. The system's efficacy was evaluated through a human study involving 10 healthy adults (six female, four male) across various breathing rates and postures, demonstrating a strong correlation (r-value = 0.836) with the gold-standard system. The study highlights the system's computational and communication efficiencies, with latencies of approximately 4.84s and 2.13ms, respectively. These findings highlight the efficacy of SolunumWear as a wireless, wearable technology for respiration monitoring in daily settings. This research contributes to the expanding body of knowledge on smart textile-based health monitoring technologies, demonstrating its potential to provide reliable respiratory data in real-world environments.