CardioLeather - Smart Leather for Health, Wellbeing, and Safety Monitoring in Automotive Vehicles

Project CardioLeather seeks to develop novel conductive leather-based surfaces with built-in physiological sensing capabilities and artificial intelligence methods, targeting integration in steering wheels and other in-vehicle surfaces to allow non-intrusive monitoring of the occupants' health, wellbeing, and identity. Led by the IST/IT spin-off CardioID, the project involves Professor Ana Fred from DBE and the researcher Hugo Plácido da Silva, being also a multi-department collaboration through the participation of Professor Paulo Lobato Correia from DEEC. CardioLeather is an 18-months Portugal 2020 funded project developed in co-promotion with Couro Azul, CTIC, and Universidade de Aveiro (UA), in addition to CardioID and IST. See more.