title: Smart garments for safety improvement of emergency/disaster operators.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Eucentre, University of Pisa, Italy.
authors.forename: Davide
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Curone
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dudnik
authors.forename: Giannicola
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Loriga
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Luprano
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Magenes
authors.forename: Rita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Paradiso
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tognetti
authors.forename: Annalisa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bonfiglio
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011481:Protective Clothing; D018635:Rescue Work; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D013784:Textiles