Flat Knitted Sensors for Respiration Monitoring

Author

Pacelli, M. ; Loriga, Giannicola ; Paradiso, R.

Author_Institution

Smartex, Prato

fYear

2007

fDate

4-7 June 2007

Firstpage

2838

Lastpage

2841

Abstract

Within the European integrated project "Proetex" (FP6-2004-IST-4-026987) three different wearable systems are under development to monitor physiological signals of firemen, detect environmental conditions and determine triage of victims during emergencies. All these systems use sensors that are integrated or embedded in garments to combine comfort to real wearability and real-time transmission. The present work is about the development and testing of electrodes and piezoresistive sensors made of yarn and integrated in the fireman\´s inner garment to monitor breathing.

Keywords

biomedical electrodes; biomedical telemetry; biothermics; clothing; electrocardiography; emergency services; piezoresistive devices; pneumodynamics; B body temperature; ECG; European integrated Proetex project; electrodes testing; fireman´s inner garment; flat knitted sensors; physiological signal monitoring; piezoresistive sensors; respiration monitoring; wearable systems; Biomedical monitoring; Clothing; Condition monitoring; Electrodes; Piezoresistance; Real time systems; Sensor systems; Signal detection; Testing; Wearable sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 2007. ISIE 2007. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Vigo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0754-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0755-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.2007.4375062

Filename

4375062