The design and development of a temperature sensing vest for the monitoring of on-body skin temperature

Marasinghe, K ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9050-5261, Shahidi, AM ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7780-3122, Oliveira, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8143-3534, Rahemtulla, Z ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4695-821X, Dias, T and Hughes-Riley, T ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8020-430X, 2025. The design and development of a temperature sensing vest for the monitoring of on-body skin temperature. In: 2024 International Conference on the Challenges, Opportunities, Innovations and Applications in Electronic Textiles (E-Textiles). Piscataway: IEEE, pp. 221-228. ISBN 9783000804298

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Abstract

This work presents a temperature sensing vest that was created using electronic yarn (E-yarn) technology that is capable of measuring skin temperature at two sights on the chest and scapula. Temperature sensing E-yarns were engineered by soldering small-scale thermistors onto Litz wires, encapsulating them within polymer micro-pods, along with supporting yarns, and covering these in a textile braid. The temperature sensing E-yarns in this work also incorporated a resistor to complete the voltage divider circuit required to record temperature using a microcontroller. The E-yarns were calibrated against skin mountable thermistors, which are the gold standard for on-body temperature sensing. The E-yarns were subsequently incorporated into the tight-knitted vest, creating close contact between the wearer and E-yarns. This work presents an initial human trial, where a participant conducted some simple activities where skin temperature was recorded with both E-yarns and skin-mounted thermistors. As reasonably good correlation between the two sensing modalities was observed.

Item Type:	Chapter in book
Description:	Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on the Challenges, Opportunities, Innovations and Applications in Electronic Textiles (E-Textiles 2024), Berlin, Germany, 19-21 November 2024.
Creators:	Marasinghe, K., Shahidi, A.M., Oliveira, C., Rahemtulla, Z., Dias, T. and Hughes-Riley, T.
Publisher:	IEEE
Place of Publication:	Piscataway
Date:	14 March 2025
ISBN:	9783000804298
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.23919/E-Textiles63767.2024.10914215 DOI 2414811 Other
Rights:	© 2025 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham School of Art & Design
Record created by:	Melissa Cornwell
Date Added:	18 Aug 2025 14:01
Last Modified:	18 Aug 2025 14:01
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/54217

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