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The Use of the Arduino Embedded System as a Prototype of a Mobile System Controlling a Person's Breathing Using a Sensor Printed on a T-shirt

Authors:
Jaroslaw Wojciechowski
Ewa Skrzetuska

Keywords: textile actuator; t-shirt; textronic; monitor; microcontroller; Arduino; human body; carbon nanotubes; screen printing; printing composition; textiles.

Abstract:
The aim of this idea is to show an early stage draft for measuring the electrical resistance in a designed/elaborated textile printed sensor with a mobile Arduino microcontroller. The textile sensor was developed by the screen printing technique based on a water dispersion of carbon nanotubes printing composition. By stretching and squeezing the T-shirt during breathing, we change the electrical resistances of the printed sensor. The measured resistance corresponds to the number of breaths of a person wearing it. The microcontroller can calculate the number of breaths as a number of electrical resistance peaks which can lead to monitoring human live parameters.

Pages: 33 to 35

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2020

Publication date: March 22, 2020

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-836X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-766-5

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from November 21, 2020 to November 21, 2020