ISSN:
1662-0356
Source:
Scientific.Net: Materials Science & Technology / Trans Tech Publications Archiv 1984-2008
Topics:
Natural Sciences in General
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Technology
Notes:
Textile integration of smart sensor systems is the key technology for the success of futuree-garments oriented to emergency operators. Ubiquitous recording and transmission of human andenvironmental data will allow combining comfort and protection leveraging with the existing smarttextile, microelectronics and telecommunication technologies. The challenge offered by emergencysituation is mainly in the difficulty to acquire data in a very aggressive environment, during hardphysical activity; conditions that will increase the risks of signals artefacts, as well as the presenceof positive and negative false events.Security is addressed through the implementation of systems combining body sensing platform, forhealth alertness and environment sensing platform for context awareness; the full system has also toguarantee protective functionality. State of art textile technology allows the monitoring of heart andrespiratory rate, humidity rate, activity rate, GSR and EMG, while core and external temperature,posture via accelerometers, absolute position via GPS are easily monitored through standardsensors. The body sensing platform requires a direct contact with the operator skin leading to theimplementation of a sensing inner garment, at the same time environment platform are integrated ina protective jacket that is also hosting the alarm systems and the electronic unit for signalprocessing and transmission hardware.This paper is reporting about a study done with a pioneer e-textile system named Wealthy onhealthy subjects during extreme conditions.Wealthy platform is currently evolving in a new one, specially designed for emergency scenarios,developed in the frame of the project Proetex, a preliminary description of the new system ispresented; the new system that is under first testing phase, has been designed to be used withoutinterfering with operator activities
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://www.tib-hannover.de/fulltexts/2011/0528/01/42/transtech_doi~10.4028%252Fwww.scientific.net%252FAST.60.101.pdf
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