Smart textile company Kymira has launched an early prototype of its cardiac monitoring t-shirt designed to lower the risk of heart attacks for athletes. The shirt wirelessly transmits a wearer’s heart rhythm to a mobile phone via Bluetooth, and, according to Kymira, can identify an unusual heart rhythm that could lead to sudden cardiac arrest.
Electrodes that are printed onto the shirt’s fabric feed into a processing unit that transmits the ECG data. Kymira’s algorithms in its mobile app process and clean the data to remove noise and signals created by movement to attempt to detect irregular heartbeats.