Hexoskin, the biometric smart shirt that provides users with in-depth insight regarding their physical training, sleep and daily activities, is expanding its product line to include the Arctic Smart Shirt, a cold weather Biometric Smart Shirt. The sensor filled Hexoskin shirt is offered as a base layer piece for training in cold weather.
The Arctic Smart Shirt provides heat insulation, true breathability, odor-resistance and blocking of fabric pulling and abrasion, all while providing the Hexoskin body metrics. The shirt is designed be used over long periods of time without causing irritation to the skin and delivers comfort similar to Merino wool.
“Athletes train year-round and we wanted to create the ultimate base layer that would allow them to train smarter even in the cold weather months,” said Pierre-Alexandre Fournier, Co-Founder and CEO of Hexoskin. ”With the addition of the Arctic Smart Shirt, we yet again prove that we can continue to grow as a company and provide smart garments to our customers that live up to their needs for information, style and comfort.”
Hexoskin provides its users with lab-quality metrics when performance truly matters, says the company. Hexoskin, with the support of NASA and the Canadian Space Agency, created sensors made of textile, leaving almost no hardware in the shirt.
A small Bluetooth device is connected to the fabric sensors and placed in the shirt’s built-in side pocket during activity and sleep. The shirt is light, warm, comfortable, and provides users with measurements they simply cannot receive from regular fitness trackers, says Hexoskin.
In addition to measuring basic metrics such as heart rate, step count, sleep duration and calories burned, the device also measures heart rate recovery, heart rate variability, breathing rate, breathing volume, activity level, acceleration, cadence and much more.
