
588 Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality
TABLE 22.1 (Continued)
Garment-Based Wearable Computer Projects Analyzed in This Review
Placement, Form Factor
Project, System Description,
Application Architecture Components
Location: torso, feet
Form: shirt, jacket, and
pair of boots
ProeTEX: smart garments for
monitoring the health and
environmental state of
emergency-disaster personnel
(Curone etal., 2010)
Computing: microcontroller
Sensors: HR monitor, respiration rate
monitor, temperature sensor,
accelerometer, heat ux sensor,
CO/CO
2
concentration, GPS
UI: visual and acoustic alarm
Communication: RS485 data bus,
ZigBee, 802.11 WLAN ...