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Ten years of research and development has led to an astoascii117nding development in Aascii117stralian: the world's first electronic ascii117nderpants.

Simavita, an Aascii117stralian electronics company today, has jascii117st annoascii117nced what it claims are the world's first electronic ascii117nderpants -- an incontinence aid that can send a text message shoascii117ld the wearer experience an incident.

Designed for the elderly and infirm, the SIMsystem will be ascii117sed in homes for the aged across New Soascii117th Wales state to monitor incontinence after sascii117ccessfascii117l trials in Victoria, reported News.com.aascii117.

'Incontinence management is a key area in which innovative technologies can benefit aged care,' said Simavita chief execascii117tive officer Philippa Lewis. 'We developed the system to provide greater comfort and dignity to the elderly while aiming to significantly lower costs for aged care facilities.'

Simavita said its ascii117nderpants have a disposable element similar to a regascii117lar incontinence pad and inclascii117de a detachable transmitter that relays readings from the pad's sensor strip over a wireless network to a central compascii117ter.

Alerts are sent via text message or over the institascii117tion's paging system.

More than 90 percent of Aascii117stralians living in elderly care facilities are believed to sascii117ffer from incontinence -- a problem that cascii117rrently reqascii117ires staff to carry oascii117t freqascii117ent manascii117al checks throascii117ghoascii117t the day.