TY - GEN
T1 - A new heat-warning-system based on a wireless body area network for protecting firefighters in indoor operations
AU - Dietz, Marco
AU - Striegel, Martin
AU - Weigel, Robert
AU - Hagelauer, Amelie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/3/9
Y1 - 2018/3/9
N2 - A new Heat-Warning-System is presented to protect firefighters in indoor operations. With the proposed Heat-Warning-System, a permanent monitoring of the body core temperature can be done, in order to protect the firefighter from a collapse. Furthermore, by placing several temperature sensors around the thorax on particular positions, the relative location of dangerous heat sources can be estimated. For the placement of the sensor nodes, an empirical channel model in combination with a cuboid body model was used, to estimate the individual transmission path losses by taking into account the influence of the human body. Finally, the Heat-Warning-System is tested and moreover the locating functionality of dangerous heat sources is shown.
AB - A new Heat-Warning-System is presented to protect firefighters in indoor operations. With the proposed Heat-Warning-System, a permanent monitoring of the body core temperature can be done, in order to protect the firefighter from a collapse. Furthermore, by placing several temperature sensors around the thorax on particular positions, the relative location of dangerous heat sources can be estimated. For the placement of the sensor nodes, an empirical channel model in combination with a cuboid body model was used, to estimate the individual transmission path losses by taking into account the influence of the human body. Finally, the Heat-Warning-System is tested and moreover the locating functionality of dangerous heat sources is shown.
KW - 6LoWPAN
KW - Heat source detection
KW - WBAN
KW - context awareness
KW - firefighter protection
KW - path loss model
KW - relative localization
KW - temperature sensing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85050581973&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/WISNET.2018.8311557
DO - 10.1109/WISNET.2018.8311557
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85050581973
T3 - WiSNet 2018 - Proceedings 2018 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks
SP - 34
EP - 37
BT - WiSNet 2018 - Proceedings 2018 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2018 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks, WiSNet 2018
Y2 - 14 January 2018 through 17 January 2018
ER -