TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Smart garments for safety improvement of emergency/disaster operators
JO  - Conference proceedings - IEEE engineering in medicine and biology society
A1  - Curone, Davide
A1  - Dudnik, Gabriela
A1  - Loriga, Giannicola
A1  - Luprano, Jean
A1  - Magenes, Giovanni
A1  - Paradiso, Rita
A1  - Tognetti, A.
A1  - Bonfiglio, Annalisa
SP  - 3962
EP  - 3965
VL  - 1
IS  - 
N2  - The main purpose of the European project ProeTEX is to develop equipment to improve safety, coordination and efficiency of emergency disaster intervention personnel like fire-fighters or civil protection rescuers. The equipment consists of a new generation of "smart" garments, integrating wearable sensors which will allow monitoring physiological parameters, position and activity of the user, as like as environmental variables of the operating field in which rescuers are working: both commercial and newly developed textile and fibre based sensors will be included. The garments will also contain an electronic box to process data collected by the sensors and a communication system enabling the transmission of data to the other rescuers and to a monitoring station. Also a "smart" victim patch will be developed: a wearable garment which will allow monitoring physiological parameters of injured civilians involved in disasters, with the aim of optimizing their survival management.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1557-170X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353201
ID  - ref1
ER  -