title: A Wearable Wireless Sensor Network for Indoor Smart Environment Monitoring in Safety Applications.
abstract: This paper presents the implementation of a wearable wireless sensor network aimed at monitoring harmful gases in industrial environments. The proposed solution is based on a customized wearable sensor node using a low-power low-rate wireless personal area network (LR-WPAN) communications protocol, which as a first approach measures CO₂ concentration, and employs different low power strategies for appropriate energy handling which is essential to achieving long battery life. These wearables nodes are connected to a deployed static network and a web-based application allows data storage, remote control and monitoring of the complete network. Therefore, a complete and versatile remote web application with a locally implemented decision-making system is accomplished, which allows early detection of hazardous situations for exposed workers.
authors.affiliation: Grupo de Diseño Electrónico (I3A), Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica y Comunicaciones, Universidad de Zaragoza, C/Pedro Cerbuna 12, Zaragoza 50009, Spain. dantolin@unizar.es.
authors.forename: Diego
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Antolín
authors.affiliation: Grupo de Diseño Electrónico (I3A), Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica y Comunicaciones, Universidad de Zaragoza, C/Pedro Cerbuna 12, Zaragoza 50009, Spain. nmedrano@unizar.es.
authors.forename: Nicolás
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Medrano
authors.affiliation: Grupo de Diseño Electrónico (I3A), Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica y Comunicaciones, Universidad de Zaragoza, C/Pedro Cerbuna 12, Zaragoza 50009, Spain. becalvo@unizar.es.
authors.forename: Belén
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Calvo
authors.affiliation: Grupo de Diseño Electrónico (I3A), Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica y Comunicaciones, Universidad de Zaragoza, C/Pedro Cerbuna 12, Zaragoza 50009, Spain. fperezpellicena@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pérez
keywords: CO2 smart detection; remote web application; safety applications; wearable sensor node; wearable wireless sensor network (W-WSN)