29-06-2012, 12:05 PM
E-Textile`
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Abstract
E-textiles, also known as electronic textiles or smart textiles, are fabrics that enable computing, digital components, and electronics to be embedded in them.
Introduction
"Intelligent Clothing" is made from fabrics that are wireless and washable that integrate computing fibers and materials into the structure of the fabrics. This technology represents a quantum leap in healthcare monitoring, producing accurate, real-time result. A garment can have some functions like a computer by using optical and conductive fibers.
History
The brief history of e-textiles dates back to the late 1990s, when a group of students at the MIT created some artistic applications for electronics, such as balls that play music and drapes that change colors when their sensors are alerted.
A few other universities, including Georgia Tech and the University of California at Los Angeles, also have e-textiles research programs, and a handful of companies are working on electronic clothes and sports equipment.
Overview
The field of e-textiles can be divided into two main categories:
E-textiles with classical electronic devices such as conducting wires, integrated circuits, LEDs, and conventional batteries into garments. This is the common type of e-textile.
E-textiles with modern electronics devices such as pure wires, conducting textile fibers, or more advanced electronics such as transistors, diodes and solar cells.
Fibertronics
The construction of electronic capabilities on textile fibers requires the use of conducting and semi-conducting materials such as Conductive textile.
There are a number of commercial fibers today that include metallic fibers mixed with textile fibers to form conducting fibers that can be woven.
Components in E-textile
Power and Battery.
CPU
PSU(power supply unit)
PRR(personal role radio)
Display Screen
Pointing Device
QWERTY Keypad
Textile Heat element
Antenna for Networking and Communication.
Medical
Scientists at “la Universidad de Madrid” have developed an 'intelligent' T-shirt that monitors the human body (temperature, heart rate, etc.) and locates patients within the hospital, as if it were a GPS system that works in closed spaces. It can even determine if the subject is seated, lying down, walking or running.
E-Textile.pptx (Size: 374.58 KB / Downloads: 42)
Abstract
E-textiles, also known as electronic textiles or smart textiles, are fabrics that enable computing, digital components, and electronics to be embedded in them.
Introduction
"Intelligent Clothing" is made from fabrics that are wireless and washable that integrate computing fibers and materials into the structure of the fabrics. This technology represents a quantum leap in healthcare monitoring, producing accurate, real-time result. A garment can have some functions like a computer by using optical and conductive fibers.
History
The brief history of e-textiles dates back to the late 1990s, when a group of students at the MIT created some artistic applications for electronics, such as balls that play music and drapes that change colors when their sensors are alerted.
A few other universities, including Georgia Tech and the University of California at Los Angeles, also have e-textiles research programs, and a handful of companies are working on electronic clothes and sports equipment.
Overview
The field of e-textiles can be divided into two main categories:
E-textiles with classical electronic devices such as conducting wires, integrated circuits, LEDs, and conventional batteries into garments. This is the common type of e-textile.
E-textiles with modern electronics devices such as pure wires, conducting textile fibers, or more advanced electronics such as transistors, diodes and solar cells.
Fibertronics
The construction of electronic capabilities on textile fibers requires the use of conducting and semi-conducting materials such as Conductive textile.
There are a number of commercial fibers today that include metallic fibers mixed with textile fibers to form conducting fibers that can be woven.
Components in E-textile
Power and Battery.
CPU
PSU(power supply unit)
PRR(personal role radio)
Display Screen
Pointing Device
QWERTY Keypad
Textile Heat element
Antenna for Networking and Communication.
Medical
Scientists at “la Universidad de Madrid” have developed an 'intelligent' T-shirt that monitors the human body (temperature, heart rate, etc.) and locates patients within the hospital, as if it were a GPS system that works in closed spaces. It can even determine if the subject is seated, lying down, walking or running.