Polish company Inovatica sp. z o.o. has developed ‘biotextile’ an innovative T-shirt fitted with bio-monitoring capacities that allows to perform electrocardiography (EKG) on the patient wearing it. Bogumil Zieba, the company’s managing director, confirmed that Inovatica aims to launch large-scale production of the particular T-shirt and that the next phase of the project will be to introduce it to the domestic and foreign markets.

Senior company representatives said that bio-monitoring system could be integrated with the T-shirt in a way that would make it possible to wash and clean it and use it in a regular way. The product should also allow recording the electrical activity of a patient’s heart with the use of electrodes placed on their skin.

The company is currently working on developing a new technology that would help allow producing individual T-shirts based on a 3D scan of the patient’s body. Once the necessary technology is available, Inovatica will introduce its bio-textile product to the Polish markets and also launch export sales of the T-shirt.