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Fire fighters often work in dangerous environments, therefore protection is essential. Nowadays fire fighters are equipped with different types of devices, each of which supplies a specific functionality. This paper studies the possibility of integrating some of these functionalities into one intelligent glove, which has a build-in sensor node. Merging different functionalities into one device will reduce the number of equipments that a fire fighter must carry. The concept of networking the intelligent gloves using Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is validated by doing application requirements analysis, transmission range experiments, and performance evaluations of a dedicated routing protocol. Results show that the IEEE 802.15.4 based WSN can be applied in fire fighting scenarios.
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An, C., Timm-Giel, A. (2012). Applying Wireless Sensor Networks in Fire Fighting. In: Pentikousis, K., Aguiar, R., Sargento, S., Agüero, R. (eds) Mobile Networks and Management. MONAMI 2011. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 97. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30422-4_28
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