Smart 7-step tool

The state of the art in developing textile-based sensors extends from sensor fibres to over-coated yams and textiles, but without using a methodical approach. Therefore, a standardized tool that allows the development of textile-based sensors for different application fields has been created for textile manufacturers. It is called the smart 7-step tool, and it is described in Section 4.3. 

Figure 4.5 Smart 7-step tool methodical approach for developing textile-based sensors (using the classified catalogue for textile-based sensors Bosowski et al., 2013).

The smart 7-step tool consists of seven steps to develop a textile-based sensor for a special application area and product with a certain functionality. It concludes a classified catalogue for textile-based sensors, which allows the textile manufacturers to use already existing textile-based sensors (see Figure 4.5). 

The parallel activities in chemical and plastics engineering require powerful and smart management tools which can handle the highly dynamic concurrent processes. If any of the analyzed process steps turns out to be not feasible or not economically reasonable, various activities can be affected and a large part of the complete project has to be reorganized or in the worst case canceled. 

Especially useful is the possibility of preparing conjugates of protein/STV chimeras and biotinylated DNA previous to their application in the assay, thus minimizing the amount of incubation steps required for IPCR (see also Section 2.1.4). Therefore, it could be concluded that if a custom-made protein chimera is accessible as a laboratory tool, or if the facilities and experience for preparing such a reagent are available, and additionally, no capture antibodies were needed, these conjugates allow for a very smart and robust approach to ultrasensitive protein detection by IPCR. 

The structure of the modules is depicted in figure 1. The 3D SMART is intertwined in a structure which contains a water and air quality model, atmospheric flow and dispersion, as well as a hydrodynamic model. All receive the same unstructured horizontal mesh, as shown in figure 1, from a meshing tool like the Surface Modeling System (SMS) from Aquaveo. Based on this mesh a hydrodynamic tool such as the FVCOM is used to compute for each time-step flow, dispersion, salinity, temperature and surface elevation fields. Likewise the atmospheric model, such as a k-e model [7] in Fluent, simulates velocity and dispersion fields for the atmosphere. Flow, dispersion, and surface elevation fields are fed into the water quality model. If necessary, for kinetic or marine life models, temperature and salinity fields are transferred to the water quality model as well, in order to set individual reaction rates in each finite volume cell. 

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