Smart Haptics for Textile Applications

Abstract

The number of terrorist attacks is increasing day by day. Most of the attacks are unexpected and thus there needs to be a system that can assist Indian soldiers in such situations. This project focuses on the development of haptic jackets which can form a medium to assist soldiers in case of such situations. The jacket is equipped with a number of smart systems which can assist the soldier on the war field. This includes monitoring the different parameters of the soldier including pulse, oxygen, heart rate, and damage taken, and notifying the same to the army base using the Internet of Things approach. The developed jackets also consist of smart haptic feedback systems which can alert the soldier in case of unexpected attacks and thus prevent loss of soldiers' life due to unexpected attacks. The Army base software is also developed as a part of this project where the details of all the soldiers present in the troop as well as their conditions can be monitored directly using the Web Portal provided to the Army base. The project also proposes tap to help feature where the soldier in danger can just tap on the jacket in a particular pattern and receive immediate help from the army base camp using the GPS coordinates of the soldier received on the Web Portal. The Jacket is further made failproof using a Wide array of sensors that will detect the emergency conditions such as bomb explosions, hazardous gas concentrations, etc, and notify the soldier using haptic feedback as well as base camp so that immediate action can be taken. Further Soldier fall detection is also implemented using MEMS accelerometers which can help the base camp to know the soldiers falling unconscious during war. The jackets are self-powered and take the requisite energy for powering the jackets using Solar panels mounted on the jacket itself making it a completely independent system to assist soldiers in the war field using IOT. The Camera is mounted on the jackets which captures continuous video feed from the jackets and sends it to the army base camp which can be visualized remotely using IOT. Keywords- Haptics, Sensor, Army, jacket, Monitoring, Sensing, IOT, Development How to cite this article: Kakade DS, Misal SS, Patil KR et al. Smart Haptics for Textile Applications. J Adv Res Instru Control Engi 2023; 10(1): 17-24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24321/2456.1398.202302