Hexoskin
Category
Wearable
Description
Sensors for the whole body's nervous system
Hexoskin is a company that specializes in smart clothing, offering an all-in-one solution for streamlined data monitoring. They produce garments that include textile sensors embedded into the fabric, allowing for precise and continuous monitoring of cardiac, respiratory, and activity levels. Not only are these garments comfortable, but they are also washable and are touted as the most advanced smart clothing available on earth and in space. The data collected through Hexoskin's smart garments can be visualized, reported, and analyzed through the Hexoskin Connected Health Platform, making Hexoskin a popular choice in over 200 scientific publications. The company aims to provide insights into the user's health status, sleep patterns, and daily activities. The Hexoskin Smart Shirts and Connected Health Platform are used in a variety of research projects, including those focusing on cardiac, respiratory, activity, stress, cognitive, and sleep studies. Users can monitor heartbeats and view their ECG in real-time with great precision. The platform helps users understand their lung ventilation, learn to control their breathing, and understand how their breathing is related to their sleep cycles. Hexoskin also functions as an advanced sleep tracking device, measuring resting heart rate, breathing, and sleep positions. Users can download iOS and Android apps to track their health in real-time, follow their health status, and produce sleep assessment reports. The Hexoskin Smart Garments allow for precise ECG cardiac monitoring with continuous lung function and activity tracking, offering a complete end-to-end solution for collecting real-world evidence. This smart clothing offers significant benefits for defense and first responder personnel, allowing for continuous monitoring of sleep and heart rate variability. This data aids in conducting longitudinal studies on mental health, stress monitoring, operational stress injuries, and post-traumatic stress disorder assessments. Researchers and clinicians have also found Hexoskin beneficial in studying individuals severely affected by Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, as the wearable technology allows for accurate tracking of various biometric data without disrupting the individual's daily routines.