Smart Garments for Emergency Operators: The ProeTEX Project
Abstract
Financed by the European Commission, a consortium of 23 European partners, consisting of universities, research institutions, industries, and organizations operating in the field of emergency management, is developing a new generation of "smart" garments for emergency-disaster personnel. Garments integrate newly developed wearable and textile solutions, such as commercial portable sensors and devices, in order to continuously monitor risks endangering rescuers' lives. The system enables detection of health-state parameters of the users (heart rate, breathing rate, body temperature, blood oxygen saturation, position, activity, and posture) and environmental variables (external temperature, presence of toxic gases, and heat flux passing through the garments), to process data and remotely transmit useful information to the operation manager. The European-integrated project, called ProeTEX (Protection e-Textiles: Micro-Nano-Structured fiber systems for Emergency-Disaster Wear) started on February, 2006 and will end on July, 2010. During this 4.5 years period, three subsequent generations of sensorized garments are being released. This paper proposes an overview of the project and gives a description of the second-generation prototypes, delivered at the end of 2008.
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As part of the ProeTEX project, Curone et al. developed a wearable sensorized garment for firefighters, which integrates a CO2 sensor with sensors to measure movement, environmental and body temperature, position, blood oxygen saturation, heart rate and respiration rate.
“As part of a similar project called ProeTEX, Curone et al. [33] developed a wearable sensorized garment for firefighters, which integrates a CO2 sensor with sensors to measure movement, environmental and body temperature, position, blood oxygen saturation, heart rate and respiration rate.”
From A review of wearable sensors and systems with application in rehabilitation (2012) · cites this paper as [33]
The ProeTEX system can warn firefighters of a potentially dangerous environment and also provide information about their well being to the control center.
“The ProeTEX system can warn the firefighters of a potentially dangerous environment and also provide information about their well being to the control center.”
From A review of wearable sensors and systems with application in rehabilitation (2012) · cites this paper as [33]
The ProeTEX project resulted in the development of a new generation of smart garments to monitor emergency-disaster personnel, enabling detection of health status parameters and environmental variables such as external temperature, presence of toxic gases, and heat flux passing through the garments.
“The project resulted into the development of a new generation of smart garments to monitor emergency-disaster personnel (see Figure 6). These garments enable the detection of health status parameters of the users and environmental variables such as external temperature, presence of toxic gases, and heat flux passing through the garments.”
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- Authors
- Curone, D., Secco, E. L., Tognetti, A., Loriga, G., Dudnik, G., Risatti, M., Whyte, R., Bonfiglio, A., & Magenes, G.
- Affiliations
- European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (IT)
- University of Pisa (IT)
- Smartex (Italy) (IT)
- Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (Switzerland) (CH)
- University of Cagliari (IT)
- University of Pavia (IT)
- Venue
- IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
- Published
- 2010-05
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 694-701
- ISSN
- 1089-7771 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2111575476
- Cited by
- 141
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 13
- FWCI
- 5.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa) (submittedVersion)
- UNICA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Cagliari) (submittedVersion)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Wireless Sensor Networks for Data Analysis
- Keywords
- smart garments, smart textiles, first responders, disaster response, wearable sensors, health monitoring, vital signs monitoring, environmental sensing, toxic gas detection, remote monitoring
- MeSH terms
- Body Temperature, Clothing, Electronics, Medical, Emergency Medical Technicians, Heart Rate, Humans, Materials Testing, Telemetry, Textiles, User-Computer Interface, Rescue Work, Monitoring, Ambulatory, Equipment Failure Analysis, Respiratory Rate
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