This paper presents a research focused on a smart textile-based protective system which is intended to bring more safety to firefighters facing hazardous conditions. The system is fully integrated into a firefighter protective suit and it is able to monitor heart rate (HR), to detect movements of a firefighter, to detect toxic and combustible gases in the environment and to measure temperature (T) and relative humidity (RH) inside and outside of the suit. The protective system consists of developed integrated sensor modules, e-textile wiring harnesses, body control unit (BCU), central processing unit (CPU), body area network (BAN) and wide area network (WAN). The measured data are wirelessly transmitted over a wide area network with automatic routing algorithm to the central processing unit, which is checked by a firefighter operation chief, who is kept informed about an actual state of individual fire fighters. In case that some monitored parameter oversteps pre-set threshold values the BCU will automatically inform a fire fighter by means of acoustic alarm about oncoming risk.

This paper presents a research focused on a smart textile-based protective system which is intended to bring more safety to firefighters facing hazardous conditions. The system is fully integrated into a firefighter protective suit and it is able to monitor heart rate, to detect movements of a firefighter, to detect toxic and combustible gases in the environment and to measure temperature and relative humidity inside and outside of the suit. The protective system consists of developed integrated sensor modules, e-textile wiring harnesses, suit control unit, commander control unit, body area network and wide area network as well. The protective system also include indoor and outdoor localization units. The indoor localization unit based on inertial sensors, which is placed on a protective boot, is determined for the remote tracking of firefighters in situations when GPS signal is missing. The main goal of this system is to increase more firefighter safety.

This article deals with screen printed antennas on textile substrate that are used for data transmission between intelligent fireman suits. Today the smart textiles are developed in the whole world and research works are focused on integration of electronic devices and systems into textiles. There are different technologies how to do it. Screen printed electronic devices on textile substrates are one of the perspective possibilities how to create electronic devices on textiles. Screen printing technology uses conductive pastes for functional pattern creation. This technology reduces significantly the manufacturing cost, is simple to use and is more and more used in electronics.