Worn under Kanaan’s firesuit, the shirt acts as both fireproofing protection and sensor. The fabric of the shirt — not wires or a separate device — senses electrical activity.
“We’re not talking about a bracelet or a separate device; it’s the fabric itself,” said Adam Nelson, vice president, industry solutions, healthcare and life sciences at NTT Data, a Tokyo-based global system integration company. “Because it’s electroconductive polymer, it picks up the heart’s electrical activity. If you position the fabric on certain muscles, it picks up the muscle activity. … It’s a very different type of bio-signal that we capture with the fabric.”
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