This paper presents a smart garment to monitor the environmental parameters and user’s vital signs; the wearable application is meant to monitor workers’ conditions in harsh workplaces. The smart jacket integrates a multisource harvesting section for gathering energy from sources associated with the human body (light, heat, movements), guaranteeing the energy autonomy of the sensing unit. This last relies on a custom microcontroller board to acquire and process biophysical and environmental data from several sensors distributed on the garment. Also, it wirelessly sends the acquired data towards the IBM Cloud platform, allowing remote monitoring of worker’s conditions, real-time anomalies detection, and decentralized storing of acquired data. The tests indicated that the harvesting section could provide up to 217 mW mean power, fully covering the energy requirements of the sensing unit in all tested scenarios. However, the 380 mAh LiPo battery, charged by the harvesting system, allows the device about 16 days lifetime when no further energy contribution is available.
Wearable sensing smart solutions for workers' remote control in health-risk activities
R. de FazioWriting – Original Draft Preparation
;P. Visconti
Writing – Review & Editing
2022-01-01
Abstract
This paper presents a smart garment to monitor the environmental parameters and user’s vital signs; the wearable application is meant to monitor workers’ conditions in harsh workplaces. The smart jacket integrates a multisource harvesting section for gathering energy from sources associated with the human body (light, heat, movements), guaranteeing the energy autonomy of the sensing unit. This last relies on a custom microcontroller board to acquire and process biophysical and environmental data from several sensors distributed on the garment. Also, it wirelessly sends the acquired data towards the IBM Cloud platform, allowing remote monitoring of worker’s conditions, real-time anomalies detection, and decentralized storing of acquired data. The tests indicated that the harvesting section could provide up to 217 mW mean power, fully covering the energy requirements of the sensing unit in all tested scenarios. However, the 380 mAh LiPo battery, charged by the harvesting system, allows the device about 16 days lifetime when no further energy contribution is available.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
