Health Monitoring T-Shirt for Remote Deployment

The Problem

Soldiers deployed in remote or extreme-condition areas had no way for base camp to remotely monitor their health status, delaying emergency response when it mattered most.

Constraints

• The sensing hardware had to be wearable and durable enough for extreme field conditions.
• Data transmission needed to work reliably from remote locations with limited connectivity.
• The same design needed to generalize to a second, very different use case — remote civilian patient monitoring.

Approach

• Designed a wearable garment embedding health-parameter sensors with a connected transmission module.
• Built the data pipeline to relay vital signs to a base-camp monitoring point for rapid action on anomalies.
• Adapted the same sensing and transmission design for medical-care patients who could wear the garment for remote monitoring.

Outcome

• Delivered a working wearable prototype demonstrating continuous, remote health-parameter monitoring.
• Identified a defence use case (soldiers in extreme conditions) and a civilian use case (remote patient monitoring) from one design.

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