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Smart textiles to be used to monitor health of pilots

12/07/2017

A team from the Advanced Textiles Research Group at Nottingham Trent University in the UK is to explore how smart textiles embedded in airplane cockpit seats and pilot clothing can be used to measure stress and anxiety.  A range of sensors will be embedded into the yarns that are used to make clothing and textiles. They will be used to monitor...

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