Smart Textiles for Medical & Healthcare

Embroidered Electronic Solutions — Sensing, Stimulation & Monitoring

MOSS — Embroidered Dry Electrodes

Reliable Signals. Zero Gel. Ready to Wear.

Our proprietary moss-stitch embroidery creates a soft, three-dimensional conductive surface that maintains reliable skin contact without gel, adhesives, or skin preparation — validated against gold-standard reference electrodes in clinical studies.

Key Advantages:

  • No Gel, No Preparation — ready-to-wear, no adhesive or consumables required
  • Multi-Modal Biosignals — one electrode technology for ECG, EMG, EEG and EMS
  • Clinically Validated — comparable to gold-standard electrodes, wash-resistant for 30+ cycles

Discover the full MOSS electrode technology story — validation data, whitepaper, and developer kit.

Smart Textiles for Healthcare, Diagnostics & Therapy

From neonatal care to rehabilitation and pain therapy, our embroidered textile electrodes, sensors, and heating elements bring reliable, gel-free monitoring and treatment into soft, wearable garments — validated for clinical performance and engineered for series production.

Our Application Fields

Neonatal & Infant Care

Gentle, Continuous Monitoring for the Smallest Patients

Premature infants need continuous vital monitoring, but adhesive gel electrodes irritate fragile skin and add nursing workload. Our textile electrodes are embroidered directly into the garment, minimising skin irritation and reducing nursing intervention during long-term stays.

Key Benefits:

  • Minimally invasive — no adhesives on fragile infant skin
  • Reduced skin irritation and nursing workload
  • Electrodes embroidered directly into soft wraps and hammocks
  • Suitable for continuous NICU monitoring

Interested in this application? Let’s talk about feasibility and next steps.

Heating Textiles & Thermotherapy

Localized, Drug-Free Warmth — Embroidered Into the Garment

Chronic muscle tension, post-operative discomfort, and long-term pain conditions often call for targeted heat therapy — but standalone heating pads are bulky, need constant repositioning, and are separate from the garment a patient already wears. Our embroidered heating elements integrate directly into jackets, belts, and wraps, so warmth becomes part of the textile itself.

Key Benefits:

  • Heating zones and wiring embroidered directly into the garment lining — no separate pad to insert or remove
  • Multiple independent heating zones with adjustable intensity levels (prototype: 3 zones, 3 levels)
  • Powered by a compact, removable USB battery pack — garment itself stays machine-washable
  • Same embroidery platform as our diagnostic electrodes — heating and sensing can be combined in one product

Magnetic Field Therapy: Embroidered Conductive Coils

Embroidered inductive coils for magnetic field therapy are technically feasible on the same platform. Clinical evidence for magnetic field therapy is mixed — happy to discuss specifics on request.

Tube Integration: Fluid and Air Channels in Smart Wearables

Embedded tube channels stitched with embroidery offer a route to combine compression or fluid-based therapies with textile sensing — an area we are keeping an eye on rather than actively productising today.

Pressure Care & Decubitus Prophylaxis

Continuous Pressure Monitoring — Before Skin Damage Occurs

Pressure ulcers are one of the most costly and preventable complications in long-term and bedbound care — but by the time skin damage is visible, prevention has already failed. Embroidered textile pressure sensors integrated into mattress covers, cushions, or positioning aids continuously monitor pressure distribution and flag prolonged loading in time to act.

Key Benefits:

  • Embroidered pressure sensor grid integrated directly into mattress covers, cushions, or positioning aids
  • Continuous, real-time pressure distribution mapping — not a periodic manual check
  • Early alerts before prolonged loading causes skin damage
  • Fully washable and durable for continuous daily use — no single-use pads to replace

Interested in this application? Let’s talk about feasibility and next steps.

Cardiac Monitoring & Continuous Care

Long-Term ECG. Multi-Parameter Monitoring. Less Nursing Burden.

Long-term cardiac and multi-parameter monitoring usually means repeated gel electrode changes and skin preparation for patients and nursing staff alike. Ambulatory ECG shirts and chest straps enable continuous heart rate monitoring for long-term hospital and home care, while in the ICU, textile electrodes support multi-parameter monitoring without repeated skin preparation.

Key Benefits:

  • Wearable ECG shirts and chest straps for continuous monitoring
  • EEG headbands for sleep studies, neurological monitoring, or focus assessment
  • Suitable for long-term hospital and home care use
  • Multi-parameter monitoring without repeated skin prep, improving patient comfort during extended stays

Interested in this application? Let’s talk about feasibility and next steps.

Rehabilitation & EMS Therapy

Precise Stimulation. Wash-and-Wear Durability.

Physiotherapy and EMS devices need precise, repeatable electrode placement patients can wear daily — not single-use gel pads. Smarter EMS cuffs, belts, and full garments for physiotherapy and recovery, built for daily wash-and-wear use throughout a treatment programme, eliminating messy gel pads and complex multi-layer builds.

Key Benefits:

  • Precise, repeatable electrode placement for targeted stimulation — custom shapes for different muscle groups
  • Supports physiotherapy, neurorehabilitation and pain management, from single cuffs to full-body EMS garments
  • Dry, washable, and reliable — no gel, fewer assembly steps, lower long-term cost per unit
  • Same MOSS electrode technology as diagnostic applications, so devices can combine EMS therapy with ECG/EMG monitoring in one garment

Benefits for Clinics and Practices:

  • Standardised, repeatable electrode placement reduces set-up time per patient session
  • Washable garments reduce consumable costs versus single-use gel electrodes
  • Same platform can combine therapy with objective progress monitoring

Download our free PDF guide to explore detailed applications, integration methods, and business benefits of textile-integrated sensors for rehabilitation and EMS therapy devices.

Light Therapy & Phototherapy

Photobiomodulation, Delivered Through a Flexible Textile

Red and near-infrared light therapy is used clinically to support wound healing, reduce inflammation, and ease chronic pain; blue light phototherapy is standard care for neonatal jaundice. Conventional light-therapy panels are rigid and immobile. Our embroidery platform integrates LED wiring directly into stretchable, conformable textile structures — proven in demonstrator applications, now being explored for therapeutic light delivery.

Key Benefits:

  • Individually addressable LEDs embroidered directly into the textile — no separate wiring harness
  • Stretchable meander wire structures maintain function up to 150% stretch, conforming to body contours
  • Same textile integration approach usable for red/near-infrared (wound healing) or blue (neonatal jaundice) wavelengths
  • Currently a proven technology capability, not yet a certified medical product — early-stage development opportunity

Watch Our Video: Automated LED Embroidery with ZSK Functional Sequin Device

Interested in exploring light therapy textiles for your application? Let’s talk about feasibility and next steps.

Microcurrent & Bioelectric Therapy

Beyond Muscle Stimulation — Low-Level Current for Pain, Inflammation & Wound Healing

Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) and bioelectric wound-healing approaches use very low-level electrical current — distinct from EMS/TENS muscle stimulation — to support pain relief, reduce inflammation, and encourage tissue repair. These approaches are typically delivered through adhesive gel-pad electrodes. Our MOSS dry electrode platform can deliver the same low-level current through a comfortable, washable textile electrode instead.

Key Benefits:

  • Same MOSS dry electrode technology used across our diagnostic and EMS applications, adapted to microcurrent waveforms
  • No gel pads to replace — washable, reusable textile electrode interface
  • Actively being explored with a customer in animal health — human application is a natural next step
  • Early-stage development opportunity, not yet a certified product for this specific use

Interested in this application? Let’s talk about feasibility and next steps.

Sensing Capabilities

Purpose:

Detect force or weight distribution, body contact, posture.

Applications:

  • Check if a user is seated correctly.
  • Monitor pressure under the back during exercises.
  • Detect symmetry in limb loading.

Purpose:

Detect touch or proximity to verify correct body posture or form.

Applications:

  • Ensure the back touches the lean.
  • Confirm proper contact during therapeutic movements.

Purpose:

Measure extension, range of motion, or muscle activation.

Applications:

  • Monitor joint angle or movement range.
  • Detect movement symmetry or form issues.

Purpose:

Sense proximity or changes in body position without direct contact.

Applications:

  • Advanced posture tracking.
  • Detect movement initiation or end.

Interactive Feedback & Actuation

Purpose:

Deliver localized vibration as real-time tactile feedback.

Applications:

  • Alert user to posture errors or overextension.
  • Indicate symmetry or effort imbalance.

Purpose:

Add thermal feedback or therapeutic support.

Applications:

  • Warm up muscles prior to activity.
  • Relaxation during post-exercise recovery.

Purpose:

Provide visual cues about effort, range of motion, or form.

Applications:

  • Red/green LEDs to indicate correct or incorrect posture.
  • Progress tracking during reps.

Purpose:

Display detailed, real-time metrics and guidance.

Applications:

  • Show progress, e.g., reps or range of motion.
  • Provide feedback, e.g., about muscle symmetry or posture score.

Ready to Bring Smart Textiles Into Your Healthcare Product?

Whether you need a first working prototype or a production-ready, certifiable design — let’s talk about your application.