Smart Thermal Jacket

The smart jacket that is able to respond to changes in temperature and create an individual "microclimate" for its wearer.   All throughout the history people who lives in the extreme cold places have faced many issues and one of the main issues was to get their body warm

Project Title

Smart Thermal Jacket

Project Area of Specialization

Wearables and Implantable

Project Summary

The smart jacket that is able to respond to changes in temperature and create an individual "microclimate" for its wearer.

All throughout the history people who lives in the extreme cold places have faced many issues and one of the main issues was to get their body warm in these extreme temperatures.

The smart jacket is, aiming to solve the challenge of dressing for transitional environments, the tech-powered jacket uses three carbon fiber heating pads to automatically warm the garment through a process called resistive heating.

These heating pads in jackets are able to deliver 10-watts of heat concurrently, with the temperatures peaking at 135ºF/57ºC- similar to that of a cup of coffee. The heating mechanism is both proactive and reactive and is constantly adapting to your body temperature. The heat is perfectly triangulated, ensuring that you do not have to worry about too much heat in a particular region.

 The jacket has an internal thermometer, an external thermometer, and an accelerometer that measure temperature and movement – a micro-controller processes the temperature and motion signals and uses this to decide how much power to send to the heating pads. Unlike other heat able jackets, which often have to be preprogrammed to a certain temperature, Mercury is able to constantly adapt and optimize its heat output to suit the wearer's body temperature – creating what the company describes as an individual "microclimate".

It also has Bluetooth capabilities, utilizing Amazon's smart app to allow users to preheat the jacket before putting it on. Wearers can also input their preferences into a corresponding app.

The jacket then uses artificial intelligence to learn and predict them over time.

"Say someone puts on the jacket before their morning commute; the jacket's heating system turns on once they walk outdoors. When walking to their train stop – elevating body temperature – the jacket combines both the outdoor and internal temperatures to regulate heat distribution," explained the designers.

Project Objectives

• The main objective of Smart Thermal Jacket is to monitor the environment’s temperature and adapt the body temperature to suit it.
• The smart jacket is aiming to solve the challenge of dressing for transitional environments.

Project Implementation Method

Research methodology is the main focus of any software development, in our project of Smart Thermal Jacket, we will be following the Agile Research Methodology, in agile development the main focus is on design and coding rather than documentation.

The development life cycle of our product consists 6 phases:

Requirment gathering:

The first phase involves understanding what need to be design and what is its function,

purpose etc. Here, the specifications of the input and output.

System Design:

The requirement specifications from first phase are studied in this phase and system design is prepared. System Design helps in specifying hardware and system requirements and also helps in defining overall system architecture. The software code to be written in the next stage is created now.

Implementation:

With inputs from system design, the system is first developed in small programs called units, which are integrated in the next phase. Each unit is developed and tested for its functionality which is referred to as Unit Testing.

Integration and Testing:

All the units developed in the implementation phase are integrated into a system after testing of each unit. The software designed, needs to go through constant software testing to find out if there are any flaw or errors. Testing is done so that the client does not face any problem during the installation of the software.

Deployment of System:

Once the functional and non-functional testing is done, the product is deployed in the

customer environment or released into the market.

Maintenance:

This step occurs after installation, and involves making modifications to the system or an individual component to alter attributes or improve performance. These modifications arise either due to change requests initiated by the customer, or defects uncovered during live use of the system. Client is provided with regular maintenance and support for the

developed Hardware and Software.

Agile Flow Diagam:

Model Diagram:

Benefits of the Project

-Body temperature detection.

-Controllable heating pads.

-Operated via mobile application.

-Proactive and reactive in heating scenarios.

-Rechargeable battery.

-Environment temperature detection.

-Indicators for indicating temperature/battery etc.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

Smart Thermal jacket with an android application to control the and monitor the operations of the jacket and will be available on play store.

The Smart Thermal Jacket uses three Carbon fiber heating pads to automatically warm the garment through a process called resistive heating.

The jacket has an internal thermometer, an external thermometer, and an accelerometer that measure temperature and movement – a micro-controller processes the temperature and motion signals, and uses this to decide how much power to send to the heating pads.

These heating pads in jackets are able to deliver 10-watts of heat concurrently, with the temperatures peaking at 135ºF/57ºC- similar to that of a cup of coffee. The heating mechanism is both proactive and reactive and is constantly adapting to your body temperature. The heat is perfectly triangulated, ensuring that you do not have to worry about too much heat in a particular region.

It also has voice-control capabilities, utilising Amazon's smart assistant Alexa to allow users to preheat the jacket before putting it on.

Wearers can also input their preferences into a corresponding app. The jacket then uses artificial intelligence to learn and predict them over time.

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

Health

Other Industries

Medical

Core Technology

Wearables and Implantables

Other Technologies

Artificial Intelligence(AI)

Sustainable Development Goals

Good Health and Well-Being for People, Climate Action

Required Resources

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