SMART TEXTILES

Textiles and mankind

Textile products are accompanying humans during their whole life Technical dependent on the state of knowledge

What is Smart Clothes?

Definition: Smart Clothes are smart textile-based wearable systems. Beginning: 1990s. Related Technologies: Wireless sensor networks (WSN), GPRS, Bluetooth, Micro-processing, etc.

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SMART FABRICS
They have added features which do more than make the consumer just look and feel good. Can be made to be breathable, waterproof, windproof etc. They are often used for sportswear or outdoor use. Some are intelligent so they respond to the changing needs of the wearer in different environments. This is called Biomimetics, which literally means copying nature, or using it as a basis for the design.

WEARABLE ELECTRONICS
They can be used in wearable textiles to dial telephones, pager messages and control music from MP3 players. Examples include a business suit with a mobile phone incorporated, a childs anorak with a tracking device, sportswear to monitor heart rate, aerobic outfits with music players incorporated, and club wear which changes colour etc.

Current Development
1. Healthcare Monitoring 2. Communications

3. Device Control
4. Haptics

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Healthcare Monitoring
Foundations:
Smart textile or embedded in textile
Microprocessor Signal Processing Wireless Communications Sensor embedded in textile

sensors

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Process of Healthcare Monitoring

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Communications
With wireless communication devices in the smart clothes, we can easily realize communications by adding microphone, earphone, screen and keyboard on the sleeve to control the cell-phone.

Thus, we can achieve other functions which can be done by cell-phones, like locating, calculating, playing games, and the like.

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Device Control
We can add a special button on keyboard of the sleeve to order the micro-controller to search and build connection with certain devices through Bluetooth. Then we can still use the keyboard to control other devices.

Control Button

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Remote device control

Control the electrical devices of our house, office et al. Using WiFi or bluetooth to build up the connection Highly integrated, one button can control all the necessary facilities
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Haptics
By adding vibrators and accelermeters in to the smart clothes, we can realize functions like Hugme haptic jacket. Also, if youwant to have a relax, you can use the keyboard to active certain vibrators to have a massage.
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Trends:
1. Medical care T-shirt 2. Clothes used for special profession 3. Remote Device Control

4. More accurate feedback

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Medical care T-shirt

Made of regular fabric, can be easily folded, washed, looks and feels familiar as a normal T-shirt It has implemented a whole sensor & processing system, this system can sense users heart beat rates, blood pressure et al. Can implement emergency measures like electrical CPR when heart beat rates become zero
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Intelligent textiles
Sensitive to external fields (ph, radiation, electric, magnetic, mechanical fields). PASIVE Changing properties (usually form) as

electrochromic

oxidation diabetes

reduction

photochromic

response to external field changes

ACTIVE

BIOMEMITISM
copying some functions from nature. combination of bio and mimetic (imitation).

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