Wearlumb: the smart shirt that will help you correct your posture

February 27, 2019

The garment will help reduce back pain every time you find yourself in the wrong position. It also admits up to 30 washes before the printed sensors fail.

Wearlumb was presented by ATOS in the World Mobile Congress 2019 Barcelona. The laptop (garment technology) is named after the garment and is designed for the workplace, in order to good posture

According to an ATOS Group survey, 71.1% of occupational diseases are due to musculoskeletal disorders, especially lower back pain, which is the most common. 80% of the population suffers from this type of disorders and 20% have problems over a period of 3 months.

The smart garment contains 23 sensors and regulates the posture in real time. Among other features, the smart shirt provides alerts and recommendations.

Wearlumb is recommended to statistically measure the risks that the person using it faces daily, and thus be able to resolve injuries caused by poor posture.

How it works?

Wearlumb integrates into the same fabric Printed motion capture sensors that scan areas that affect most users in forced or incorrect positions at workthey collect the information and send it to an badociated application for badysis.

This information is sent via Bluetooh to an application that badyzes it in real time. The shirt is designed in men's and women's versions.

As the data previously sent to a tablet is badyzed, the application is responsible for the indication of the recommendations.

According to its creators, it is not a question of generating a dependence on the garment to use every day, but to learn to educate our body until it is no longer need to use it.

The smart shirt still has no release date, but will certainly generate great expectations in the market and its users.