Smart garments for emergency operators: The ProeTEX project

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 694-701

  Curone, Davide ^a   Secco, Emanuele Lindo ^a   Tognetti, Alessandro ^b   Loriga, Giannicola ^c   Dudnik, Gabriela ^d   Risatti, Michele ^e   Whyte, Rhys ^f   Bonfiglio, Annalisa ^g,h   Magenes, Giovanni ^a,i  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR TRAINING AND RESEARCH IN EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING EUCENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c D'Appolonia   (Italy)

^d CSEM   (Switzerland)

^e Diadora SpA   (Italy)

^f Zarlink Semiconductor Inc   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^h INFM   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Multisensors system; Physiological and environmental monitoring; Smart textile; Wearable electronics

Indexed keywords

BLOOD OXYGEN SATURATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING RATE; E-TEXTILES; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; EXTERNAL TEMPERATURE; HEART RATES; INTEGRATED PROJECT; MICRO-NANO; MULTI SENSOR; OPERATION MANAGERS; PORTABLE SENSORS; PROCESS DATA; RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS; SMART GARMENTS; SMART TEXTILES; STATE PARAMETERS; TOXIC GAS; WEARABLE ELECTRONICS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; HEALTH RISKS; OXYGEN; RISK MANAGEMENT; TEXTILE PROCESSING; TEXTILES;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING RATE; CLOTHING; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESCUE WORK; TELEMETRY; TEXTILE;

BODY TEMPERATURE; CLOTHING; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; RESCUE WORK; RESPIRATORY RATE; TELEMETRY; TEXTILES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77953169231     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2010.2045003     Document Type: Article

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