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The sensing network is composed of six optical fiber Bragg grating (FBG)-based sensor cells. Each sensor cell is built from a polylactic acid (PLA) base and has two FBGs, one embedded in epoxy resin to monitor pressure variations (FBGP) and another without resin to monitor temperature (FBGT). Once produced, all sensor cells were experimentally characterized for pressure and temperature variations, resulting in an average pressure sensitivity of 81 \u00b1 5 pm\/kPa (FBGP) and \u22125.0 \u00b1 0.4 pm\/kPa (FBGT), and an average temperature sensitivity of 25 \u00b1 1 pm\/\u00b0C (FBGP) and 47.7 \u00b1 0.7 pm\/\u00b0C (FBGT). The sensor cells were then placed in six specific areas of a wheelchair (four in the seat area and two in the shoulder blade area) to carry out experimental tests, wherein the response of the sensors to a specific sequence of relief positions was tested. During the execution of the test, the optical signal of all sensors was monitored, in real time, with the pressure and temperature values detected in each zone of the wheelchair. In addition, random position changes were performed in order to evaluate the precision of the proposed sensing network in the identification of such positions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph19042195","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,15]],"date-time":"2022-02-15T22:43:22Z","timestamp":1644965002000},"page":"2195","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Sensor Cell Network for Pressure, Temperature and Position Detection on Wheelchair Users"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3632-757X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"C\u00e1tia","family":"Tavares","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physics & I3N, University of Aveiro, Campus Universit\u00e1rio de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"},{"name":"Instituto de Telecomunica\u00e7\u00f5es and University of Aveiro, Campus Universit\u00e1rio de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3248-2900","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Daniela","family":"Real","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physics & I3N, University of Aveiro, Campus Universit\u00e1rio de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9958-0409","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Maria de F\u00e1tima","family":"Domingues","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de Telecomunica\u00e7\u00f5es and University of Aveiro, Campus Universit\u00e1rio de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8176-7953","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"N\u00e9lia","family":"Alberto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de Telecomunica\u00e7\u00f5es and University of Aveiro, Campus Universit\u00e1rio de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6764-8432","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hugo","family":"Silva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de Telecomunica\u00e7\u00f5es, Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico, University of Lisbon, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal"},{"name":"PLUX\u2014Wireless Biosignals, S.A, 1050-059 Lisboa, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9129-3539","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Paulo","family":"Antunes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physics & I3N, University of Aveiro, Campus Universit\u00e1rio de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"},{"name":"Instituto de Telecomunica\u00e7\u00f5es and University of Aveiro, Campus Universit\u00e1rio de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Han, D.K., Kim, J.M., Cha, E.J., and Lee, T.S. 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