Introduction of Smart Footwear for Wintry Conditions

        The footwear industry started as a small business and small manufacturing process but now emerging as a modern and successful industry. The footwear is basically a necessary product that must be luxury [2]. In some Nordic countries the winter season last for 6 months in a year. In the winter season the roads are covered with Ice and surfaces of road becomes slipping [3]. The roads filled with ice increases the fall accident and sleep accidents in the forest workers, construction workers, and service workers. A worthy literature survey reveals that in Sweden thousands of pedestrians and local public were injured due to slip of roads. The fall due to Ice causes the injuries and the cold and isolated injuries in 2011 were accounted about that 37% [1]. Half of the injuries were due to slipping of shoes and resulted in the fractures.

        In the previous researches, numbers of researches were done to lower the rate of slips and fall [4]. The valuable researchers worked to determine the causes of slipping on ice. The issues identified in the research includes lack of knowledge, sleepiness of shoes and footwear’s, and lower grip of footwear on the Icy surfaces [1].

        The prime concerned of the present work is to determine the way to deal with friction issues of ice and to explore slip resistant properties of the footwear. These properties include soling material, hardness and roughness of the footwear on ice. In order to reduce and overcome the issues of slipper shoes a standard method was used to proposed anti-slip devices. These anti-slip devices are portable and stable that ultimately reduces slip on the icy surfaces.

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