A new telemedicine system for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: validation of the sensing wearable framekork

The work of this thesis is focused on the validation of the wearable framework of the Chronious platform. Chronious is a FP7 European Community project which works on an innovative telemedicine system for monitoring COPD patients. The wearable system of the Chronious project is composed of a shirt made of washable stretch-material into which are sewn several sensors and of a microcontroller-based acquisition system devoted to data collection. Three phases of test are performed to assess accuracy and reliability of the whole wearable platform: two sessions of test on healthy subjects and a final session on COPD patients. We developed and tested two method for the calibration of the respiratory bands (RIP) inserted in the shirt of the wearable platform