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Fig. 67 FiberThermics® by Thermosoft [130]
The picture shows the principle of the technology. It has been incorporated in blankets to conduct heat
evenly throughout the blanket. The outer material is a fleece that covers a polyester fibrefill. Heat is
activated by a solid-state electronic control with multiple settings. Next to the blankets which can be
bought for 130 US$, also mattress pads, mattresses and sleeping backs are commercially available
[130].
2.1.5.3 Electronic textiles for health, wellness, motion, fitness or mood
Together with the Fraunhofer-Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing and the companies
Suess Medizin-Technik and the Telematik-Center TMD, the German company ITP GmbH developed a
telematic patient surveillance system based on a textile sensoric bed cover. The two-layered textile
bed cover consists of several systems to register the parameters measured by integrated textile
sensors. Different textile sensors have been constructed in order to measure several parameters,
such as surface pressure, temperature and humidity. In the left picture below, the carrying layer with
six pressure sensors and one humidity sensor is shown. The picture in the middle depicts the structure
of the textile pressure sensor, while the right picture illustrates the textile humidity sensor.
Fig. 68 Textile sensors used in the bed cover [131]
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