Suitability of conductive knit fabric for sensing human breathing

Mohamed, Aliaa A. A.; Ezzat, Mohamed M.; Abdel Megeid, Z. M.; Saeed, Ahmed

doi:10.21608/jsrs.2016.15319

Suitability of conductive knit fabric for sensing human breathing

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Faculty of Women Ain Shams University, Textile and Clothing, Cairo, Egypt

² National Research Center, Textile Research Division, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt

³ Electronics, Communications and Computer engineering, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt

10.21608/jsrs.2016.15319

Abstract

This paper studies the suitability of conductive knit fabric in order to produce a reliable breathing sensor. Conductive single jersey knit fabrics was manufactured from silver coated nylon yarn with different production parameters (stitch type (ST)- combination ratio (CR) and number of wales (NW)). A cyclic tester was built to simulate the breathing mechanism of a human being and to explore the influence of these parameters on the electric resistance. The results show that there is a significant effect on the resistance value by the difference in ST and CR, while the width of the sample doesn’t show a significant effect.The best sample suited for breathing sensor is the one with increase in width (NW), less CR and normal stitch.

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