Title
Protecting firefighters with wearable devices
Abstract
Emergency units typically operate under extremely harsh conditions and could benefit from new technologies to perform at their highest potential and provide and ideal test case to push wereable computing to its limits. In this paper we present our work on smart textiles and wearable devices for firefighters. The objective of our work is to create an smart t-shirt capable of measuring the rate and thermal stress state which the user is subject to. For that, several sensors monitor different parameters and send the information, via bluetooth low energy wireless protocol, to a mobile phone and a wrist-watch both with bluetooth low energy communication capabilities. In this paper we explain the main features of our work and show some test accomplished with different levels of temperature to test the robustness of the system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-35377-2_65
UCAmI
Keywords
Field
DocType
smart textile,different level,main feature,wearable device,different parameter,ideal test case,highest potential,bluetooth low energy communication,protecting firefighters,harsh condition,emergency unit,bluetooth low energy wireless,wearable devices,sensors,body area network,monitor
Computer science,Robustness (computer science),Emerging technologies,Body area network,Mobile phone,Wireless Application Protocol,Smart phone,Wearable technology,Bluetooth Low Energy,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.53
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guillermo Talavera1474.00
Renat Martin240.53
Aitor Rodríguez-Alsina340.53
Joan Garcia450.90
Francesc Fernández540.53
Jordi Carrabina613936.98