Vital Jacket review¶

• Vital Jacket review
  • Product Overview
  • Device Setup

Product Overview¶

The Vital Jacket is a comfortable and easy-to-wear T-shirt that combines the latest textile technology with a built-in heart monitor. By allowing to do a continuous and noninvasively Electrocardiogram (ECG) acquisition combined with heart rate measurements, the device enables physicians to evaluate possible heart conditions when the user performs some sort of exercise.

Fig 1. Vital Jacket consumer kit available at http://www.vitaljacket.com/en/sdk-2/

As depicted in Figure 1, the product's kit includes a T-shirt, an electronic device, a battery charger, an SD card, and a set of electrodes. The product is available in two forms regarding the number of springs available on the T-shirt to which the electrodes are connected to, namely the 1L version which has 3 springs, and the 5L version which has 5 springs.

Device Setup¶

1. Clean with alcohol and dry very well the zones of the body where the electrodes will be placed. The electrodes placement must follow Figure 2 for the 5L (A) and 1L (B and C) versions.

Fig 2. Electrode placement the 5L (A) and 1L (B and C) versions.