Wearable technology nowadays have become a hot trend. Virtually all well-known manufacturers of mobile devices has mastered the production or plan to start in the near future the supply of fitness trackers, smart watches or other devices that allows you to track physical activity, as well as to monitor the vital signs of the human body.
For companies like Ralph Lauren, this market has its own specifics, because it is, literally, manufactures wearable products, including shirts, pants, shorts.
Recently Ralph Lauren has opened pre-orders for “smart” t-shirt PoloTech with the functions of a fitness tracker. Thanks to sensors sewn into the threads of silver PoloTech provides monitoring of a number of indicators of physical activity, including heart rate and respiration, stress levels and energy consumption. The project involved a canadian company Omsignal, which created its own platform for gathering information about the physiological activity of the human body using sensors in clothing and a smart phone app.
In the left part of the shirt is a black box, accumulating information, which is then transmitted to the cloud storage. To read this information, you can use the smartphone apps. In the “black box” also has an accelerometer and gyroscope.
The manufacturer claims that the structure of the tissue Mikey improves circulation and promotes the recovery of muscles after workouts. To order PoloTech Smartshirt from Ralph Lauren on the company’s website for $295.
