Students Emma Stolpe, Michael Jung, Mohamed Elsayed and Simon Leiniger implemented the intelligent T-shirt - an idea of their professor Hartmut Witte, head of the Biomechatronics Group at TU Ilmenau - as a student project. At the VDE's COSIMA competition, held at electronica, the world's leading electronics trade fair and conference in Munich, they just beat out teams from Hamburg, Karlsruhe and Munich. In their presentation, they not only presented the technical innovations of their intelligent T-shirt, they also had to present possible market prospects.
Every year in the VDE competition COSIMA ("Competition of Students in Microsystems Applications"), teams of technology-savvy students compete against each other who have developed new uses for sensors and microsystems in everyday life. The four Ilmenau students now have the opportunity to compete with their T-shirt at the international iCAN competition in Kyoto, Japan, next June with teams from numerous European countries as well as China, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan and the USA.
The students and the Biomechatronics Group now want to further develop the sensor system. An app is planned that will display a warning message in the event of frequent incorrect movements and warn the wearer of the system of possible back problems if preventive measures are not taken by a doctor or physiotherapist. Movement analyses at the workplace, for example in the case of physically demanding activities, would also be possible through the use of the intelligent T-shirt.
Contact
Thomas Helbig
Biomechatronics Group
+49 3677 69-4689
thomas.helbig@tu-ilmenau.de
