BANSAC wireless Body Area Networks for Smart Assistive Clothing

The main aim of this project is to design and implement smart assistive clothing incorporating ultra low-power wireless body area networks (BANs) which will warn the wearer and monitoring services of dangerous and changing environmental conditions. It will also combine monitoring of the wearer’s vital signs. This project will be one of the first to adopt the new and emerging standard for wireless BANs, as the PIs are active and voting members of the new IEEE 802.15.6 standards working group.

The expected impacts of the SME call include “strengthening the competitiveness of SME participants” and “new/improved products, processes or services” with a “clear economic impact for the SME participants”. The BANSAC project is designed to address these targets, aiming to produce new smart assistive clothing incorporating innovative ultra low-power wireless body area networks which will support new applications and markets for each of the SMEs involved, whether as supplier of garments, sensors, or the wireless networks involved, or end users of such smart garments. The new innovative smart clothing will have strong market competitiveness, offering a cheaper, innovative, more functional, and more efficient alternative to existing approaches and technologies.