• Junaid Khan
• Prarthana Metrani
• Saptarshi Maiti

Abstract: The primary function of textile is to shield humans but with advancement in technology, textile industry is rapidly developing with varied special features in addition to its primary function. Smart Textiles are the textile materials that have the ability to sense and hence react to external stimulus with the help of electronic sensors incorporated. Along with its application in different fields like sports, military, fashion/lifestyle etc, it has applications in health care for continuous monitoring of patients and one such example is of pregnant women. Pregnant women have many health issues and frequent visit to hospital is troublesome so scientists have come up with a technology in which the sensors incorporated in the fabric are capable of monitoring blood pressure, ECG (Electrocardiograph), etc of mother as well as child inside the womb. Such readings are continuously recorded and sent to the healthcare professionals via a communication module. The name of such device is LIFEBELT which is in the form of a jacket. Major benefits are continuous monitoring and early diagnosis. It consists of two components Sensing Module which is a jacket with sensors embedded and electrodes and Handheld device to get the results which is a Tablet PC. Another advancement in this technology is PregSense which have more number of sensors thereby giving better accuracy. Knitting technology and bellyband antenna sensor are such developments in this field. This system does not require any surgery. The obtained signals are extracted and separated by many techniques and one of the important techniques is B.S.S. This device is predictive and hence saves lives. This review encompasses smart textiles with an insight on LIFEBELT in more details.

Smart Textiles, E.C.G, LIFEBELT, Pregnancy, PegSense

"Smart Textiles for Health Monitoring during Pregnancy", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.836-842, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906E77.pdf

"Smart Textiles for Health Monitoring during Pregnancy", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp836-842, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906E77.pdf