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Technical textiles with embedded fibre optic sensors habe been developed for the purposes of the structural health monitoring in geotechnical and civil engineering as well as for healthcare monitoring in the medical sector. The paper shows selected examples of using such sensor-based smart textiles for different applications.
The potential of the use of POF as distributed sensors in several application fields has been successfully demonstrated. The distributed POF sensors have moved from the laboratory to the field. The paper presents the recent progress in the development of distributed POF sensors and addresses the main challenges to this innovative technology.
The versatility of MPOF offers a variety of sensing applications. In this paper the influence
of strain, temperature and humidity is investigated. The results show that MPOF LPGs are well suited
for strain sensing. Further investigations have to be made to clarify the behaviour on temperature and
humidity in more detail.
We investigate two real-time strain sensing principles based on the optical time-domain reflectometry
(OTDR) in polymer optical fibres (POF). The first sensing principle uses the increase of the level of backscattered light
in a stretched POF. The second sensing principle uses the effect of losses due to bending.
We report on three respiration sensors based on pure optical technologies developed during the FP6 EU project
OFSETH. The developed smart medical textiles can sense elongation up to 3%, while maintaining the stretching
properties of the textile substrates for a good comfort of the patient. The sensors, based on silica and polymer fibre, are
developed for monitoring of patients during MRI examination. The OFSETH harness allows a continuous measurement
of respiration movements while all vitals organs are free for medical staff actions. The sensors were tested in MRI
environment and on healthy adults.
We investigated to our knowledge for the first time the capabilities of long period gratings (LPG) in single-mode microstructured polymer optical fibre (mPOF) as real-time gamma dosimeter. The fibre is made from polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) with a polycarbonate jacket. We measured the radiation-induced wavelength shift of the mPOF LPG loss feature wavelength and the radiation-induced attenuation of a mPOF for
different wavelength between 600 nm and 800 nm for gamma radiation with an energy distribution between 6 keV and 18 keV.