Advanced e-textiles for firefighters and civilian victims
Description
Advanced E-Textile systems can bring together sensors, connections, transmission systems, power management. The emergency disaster personnel smart garments will progressively enhance and integrate such textile systems to enable the following functions:
- Continuous monitoring of life signs (biopotentials, breathing movement, cardiac sounds);
- Continuous monitoring biosensors (sweat, dehydration, electrolytes, stress indicators, O2, CO);
- Pose and activity monitoring;
- Low power local wireless communications, including integrated textile antennae;
- Internal temperature monitoring using textile sensors;
- External chemical detection, including toxic gases and vapours;
- Power generation - photovoltaic and thermoelectric and energy storage;
- Longer term e-textile technologies including further sensors, light emission and logic on fibre.
The project builds and integrates with the roadmap established within the EU projects Wealthy, MyHeart, Biotex and WearIT@work.
A web site detailing the cluster of EC co-financed projects on Smart Fabrics and Interactive Textiles (SFIT) can be found at:
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