Performance analysis of textile based temperature sensor

Estimation of skin temperature can play an important role in the diagnosis and management of the certain disease process. This article presents the performance of recently developed textile based temperature sensor in comparison to the standard temperature sensor in a practical environment. The textile temperature sensor is a two layer knitted fabric produced on an electronic flat-bed knitting machine. The skin temperatures of human body were measured by changing various testing conditions such as no. of clothing layers, body movements, and clothing pressure. The temperature profiles of both standard and textile sensors were recorded simultaneously through customized LabVIEW based interface. Both sensors precisely demonstrated the same trends in the temperature profile and experienced the same type of body movement errors.