CardioID served as the lead organization of the CardioLeather project, co-funded by the Portugal 2020 / COMPETE program, with the objective of developing conductive leather with embedded electronics for physiological signal acquisition on vehicle surfaces, such as steering wheels, enabling continuous and non-intrusive health and wellbeing monitoring.
In a recent interview with Expresso, the CEO of CardioID explored the project’s vision: “What if your car could measure your cardiac health continuously?” The article discusses the technical challenges, the potential impacts on road safety, and the pioneering role of the company in developing such integrated technologies.
Throughout the CardioLeather project, CardioID coordinated a consortium of partners from materials engineering, electronics, signal processing, and AI to address the challenges of leather functionalization, efficient ECG acquisition, and seamless automotive integration.
This initiative allowed CardioID to consolidate cross-disciplinary innovation capabilities and strengthen its positioning at the intersection of digital health and smart mobility. The visibility gained via the Expresso interview and dissemination of project results contribute to affirming CardioID’s commitment to the future of in-vehicle biometric monitoring, with several vehicle OEMs expressing interest in exploring the the concept of health within the car.