SMART CLOTHES

Smart and interactive textiles are fibrous structures that are capable of sensing, actuating, generating/storing power and/or communicating. Research and development towards wearable textile-based personal systems allowing health monitoring, protection & safety has gained strong interest during the last decade. Smart fabrics and interactive textile wearable systems regroup activities along two different and complementary approaches i.e. "application pull" and "technology push", which includes personal health management through integration, validation, and use of smart clothing and other networked mobile devices as well as projects targeting the full integration of sensors/actuators, energy sources, processing and communication within the clothes to enable personal applications such as protection/safety, emergency and healthcare. Here in case of smart textiles we are using the conductive fibers such as metal yarn. This includes the origin and introduction of smart textile and integrated wearable electronics for sport wear, industrial purpose, automotive & entertainment applications, healthcare & safety systems, military and public sectors. One could think of smart clothing that makes us feel comfortable at all times, during any activity and in any environmental conditions, a suit that protects and monitors, that warns in case of danger and even helps to treat diseases and injuries. Some of the more important efforts include applications that aid in patient health monitoring through sensor embedded garments that track and record biometric data, helps to improve athletic performance both by analyzing sensor data and adapting to changing conditions so as to improve performance over the time.