Aachen - Seat-made prototype of American car manufacturers, Ford and Aachen University Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochschule, Germany is guaranteed to be useful for people with heart disease.

Because the seat is claimed to detect a heart condition from the driver. So in the future, traffic accidents caused by heart attacks can be minimized.

The technology applied in this bench is also fairly complex. Among the device monitors the heartbeat, Electrocardiograph (ECG) is not into contact directly with users, even though the user was wearing clothes.

Though normally, the ECG in the hospital is equipped metal electrodes that have direct contact with the patient’s skin when the appliance is used.

“This system can detect if someone is having symptoms of cardiovascular events, such as heart attack, or know the circumstances that need to watch out for riders such as high blood pressure,” said Dr. Achim Lindner, Ford Research Centre, Medical Officer.

Later equipped with six sensors ECG serves as an early warning system that will give a signal when there are abnormalities of the heart. Then the warning to appear on the monitor that is integrated with the system.

In early tests, heart monitors this bench has a high accuracy of up to 98 percent of the time use and 95 percent of drivers.

Currently, Ford’s engineers are developing this system to be integrated with other security devices. Lindner added, however if the phone smartphone can play an important role as a support for future applications of this.

With the phone connection and this seat on the Ford SYNC system and MyFord Touch, SYNC’s Emergency Assistance function directly inform the driver of a heart attack from the emergency medical team, so that help can be given faster.