Intelligent smelling shirt based on fabric sensors for health status monitoring

Author

Seesaard, Thara ; Khunarak, Chayanin ; Lorwongtragool, Panida ; Kerdcharoen, Teerakiat

Author_Institution

Mater. Sci. & Eng. Programme, Mahidol Univ., Bangkok, Thailand

fYear

2013

fDate

3-5 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

In this work, we have implemented a wearable device for detecting the body odor of wearer. The sensing unit of this device consists of four fabric based gas sensors based on nanocomposite between polymers and carboxylic-functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT-COOH) simply fabricated by embroidering on textile. The communication between smelling shirt and computer is based on a serial communication using ZigBee wireless network. We have tested the performance of these sensors with eight types of volatile organic gases. Based on principal component analysis (PCA), it was found that this device is able to track change in the human body odor, thereby showing a potential for application in real-time health status monitoring.

Keywords

Zigbee; chemioception; computerised monitoring; fabrics; gas sensors; intelligent sensors; nanocomposites; nanosensors; polymers; principal component analysis; wireless sensor networks; PCA; ZigBee wireless network; body odor detection; carboxylic functionalized SWNT; fabric based gas sensor; health status monitoring; human body odor; intelligent smelling shirt; nanocomposite; nanofabrication; polymers; principal component analysis; serial communication; single walled carbon nanotube; textile; volatile organic gas; wearable device; Optical fiber communication; Textiles; Body odor; E-nose; Smelling shirt; ZigBee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC), 2013 IEEE International Conference of

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDSSC.2013.6628074

Filename

6628074