Integration of a Newly-Developed Pressure Sensor on Mobile Platforms

Abstract

The advent of smart sensors and the IoT technology, along with the horizontal evolvement of the fabrication technology, offered new opportunities for the development of safety systems in hazardous areas. Nowadays, there are more and more demands for smart equipment to be used by the rescue teams, which to allow them to gather real time information about the hazardous incident causes and its development, thus helping them to plan the adequate rescue strategy, with minimal casualties and maximal rescue results. The TESTES project consortium aims the development of a new generation of sensors, based on deposition of nanofibers and porous films. Those sensors are designed to be used on mobile platforms, as smart sensors. The resulting sensors must be integrated on two classes of mobile platforms: a portable device, which to be carried on by each one of the on-site rescue team members; and a mobile robot platform, which to be teleoperated or which to autonomously move in a hazardous environment. In the current paper we will present the data reading module, the remote transmission module, and the integration of them on the portable device and on the mobile robot platform.