EU PROTECTIVE CLOTHES RESEARCH FIRE PROTECTION
February 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EURO 12 million European Union (EU) research project is developing new high tech garments to protect emergency disaster workers. The ProeTEX (Protection e-Textiles: Micro-Nano-Structured Fibre Systems for Emergency-Disaster Wear) scheme will be focused on creating garments that monitor emergency workers' vital body signs, as well as potentially dangerous changes in the outside environment. Radiocommunications will feed data on both sources from these smart garments to control centres, enabling managers to better manage their workers and ...
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