کنفرانس بین المللی کنترل ، ابزار دقیق و اتوماسیون

صفحه اصلی / هشتمین کنفرانس بین المللی کنترل ، ابزار دقیق و اتوماسیون

Wearable sensing smart solutions for workers' remote control in health-risk activities

نویسندگان :

Paolo Visconti¹ Roberto De Fazio² Ramiro Velazquez³ Bassam Al-Naami⁴ Amir Aminzadeh Ghavifekr⁵

1- University of Salento 2- University of Salento 3- Universidad Panamericana 4- The Hashemite University 5- University of Tabriz

کلمات کلیدی :

Wearable device, Energy harvesting, Microcontrollers, Sensors, Cloud applications

چکیده :

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.