Protex (protection e textile for emergency disaster wear). France civil protection. Advanced e Textile systems can bring together sensors, connections, transmission systems, power management. The emergency disaster personnel smart garments will progressively enhance and integrate such textile systems to enable the following functions: 1.Continuous monitoring of life signs (biopotentials, breathing movement, cardiac sounds); 2.Continuous monitoring biosensors (sweat, dehydration, electrolytes, stress indicators, O2, CO); 3.Pose and activity monitoring; 4.Low power local wireless communications, including integrated textile antennae; 5.Internal temperature monitoring using textile sensors; 6.External chemical detection, including toxic gases and vapours; 7.Power generation photovoltaic and thermoelectric and energy storage; 8.Longer term e textile technologies including further sensors, light emission and logic on fibre.