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Part of the WEALTHY interface Overall WEALTHY function 212 Fig. 117 Fabric interface and overall monitoring function of the WEALTHY garment The system can monitor physiological variables, such as respiration, electrocardiogram, activity, pressure and temperature. A miniaturised short-range wireless system has been integrated into the garment which transfers signals to the WEALTHY box/PCs, PDA and mobile phones. The garment interface is connected with the PPU, where local processing as well as communication with the network is performed [212]. 2.9.2 European projects within FP6 2.9.2.1 WearIT@work The WearIT@work - Empowering the mobile worker by wearable computing - project is a 4½ years lasting IST (Information Society Technologies) Integrated project with the highest EC funding of textile relating projects so far. The EC contributed 14.297.149 € to the project whose total cost amount to 23.683.309 €. The project started on 1st of June 2004. It aims to prove the applicability of computer systems integrated to clothes, the so-called wearables, in various industrial environments. These novel computer systems will support their users or groups of users in an unobtrusive way e.g. wearing them as a computer-belt. This will allow them to perform their primary task without distracting their attention enabling computer applications in novel fields. The project will result in four pilot applications. In the first 18 months “Show Cases” are to be realised and evaluated. Based on the experiences gained there “System Prototypes” are to be developed, which will be the basis of the final “Industrial Pilots” in the four dedicated fields: Emergency Rescue; Healthcare; Maintenance and Production [213]. 135
2.9.2.2 My Heart The MyHeart project is a 3¾ year lasting IST Integrated Project, started on 31st of December 2003, whose goal is to gain knowledge on a citizen’s actual health status by continuous monitoring of vital signs. The consortium consists of 33 different partners from 11 countries. It integrates system solutions into functional clothes with integrated textile sensors. The combination of functional clothes and integrated electronics capable of processing them on-body can be defined as intelligent biomedical clothing. The processing consists of making diagnoses, detecting trends and reacting to them. Together with feedback devices, able to interact with the user as well as with professional services, the MyHeart system is formed. This system is suitable for supporting citizens to fight major CVD risk factors and help to avoid heart attack, other acute events by personalized guidelines and giving feedback. It provides the necessary motivation to adopt the new life styles [214]. In order to sense different body parameters, scientists at the Wearable Computing Laboratory at the ETH in Zurich developed together with the company Sefar Inc. a System-on-Textiles, which is a woven fabric with thin insulated copper fibres, as shown in Fig. 118. Fig. 118 Conductive Textile: System-on-Textiles [215] In order to create an arbitrary conductor path within the textile, single copper wires must be connected at crossing points. This connection forms a textile via, the fundamental building block for a connecting structure in fabrics. As there is a linear dependency of temperature of the copper wires and their electrical resistance, the fabric is capable to measure temperature. Due to the usage of the wires as warp and weft material, a grid like structure is formed which enables to locate the hot spot by measuring the resistances of warps and wefts. For the purpose of sensing pressure, the researchers developed a pressure sensor mat made out of a spacer fabric with embroidered electrically conductive patch arrays on both sides. With this system, the sitting posture can be detected. Each opposing patch pair in the array forms a plate capacitor whose capacity changes with compression force on the spacer fabric. Finally, a prototype T-shirt with textile and rigid off-the-shelf sensors was developed [215]. 136
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