Development of an Intelligent Garment for Crisis Management
Résumé
This chapter presents an intelligent wearable system based on the design of an instrumented garment specially designed for firefighters and focuses on the context of crisis management. A powerful application of intelligent garments is related to risk management in hostile environments. By learning from data measured by the garment’s sensors, a local decision support system was created in order to relate fatigue and stress indicators to the measured physiological signals. The chapter outlines the design process of the intelligent garment for firefighters, including the general architecture of the wearable system, choice of sensors and microcontroller, textile design and integration of the electronic components. It discusses signal processing methods used for extracting information about fatigue and stress conditions and provides an analysis of the results obtained. The chapter proposes a cooperation plan between a robot and a firefighter wearing the smart garment