Smart fabrics are textiles that can respond to various environmental stimuli through the use of sensors and electronic components embedded within the fabric. They can sense and react to stimuli such as temperature, chemicals, mechanics, electricity and magnetism. Common applications of smart fabrics include health monitoring fabrics containing sensors to track vital signs, temperature sensitive fabrics that protect the body from heat and cold, and military uniforms integrated with technology to monitor soldiers. Smart fabrics have potential uses in entertainment, communication, and mobile computing through integrating technologies like music players, GPS, antennas and keypads directly into clothing.
this presentation tells about smart textile and shows some of the example with the use
Smart textiles have been called e-textiles or intelligent textiles, electro active textiles, wearable electronics, and textronic depending on the approach.
http://www.ualberta.ca/~jag3/smart_textiles/index.htm
Jose A. Gonzalez
Protective Clothing Research Group
Department of Human Ecology
University of Alberta
this presentation tells about smart textile and shows some of the example with the use
Smart textiles have been called e-textiles or intelligent textiles, electro active textiles, wearable electronics, and textronic depending on the approach.
http://www.ualberta.ca/~jag3/smart_textiles/index.htm
Jose A. Gonzalez
Protective Clothing Research Group
Department of Human Ecology
University of Alberta
The textile industry is about to take a giant step from being a supplier of fabrics to become a positive force in the development of society. Textile innovations improve people’s everyday lives and benefit the industry, the health care sector and the environment.
Smart textiles can be defined as textiles that are able to sense and respond to changes in their environment.
The integration of electronics in clothing promises a variety of new products and applications. . Whether for performance or aesthetic reasons, the focus within the textiles orb is on smart fabrics – from those that change their hue to those that regulate body temperature. Researchers are developing smart fabrics that do things that traditional fabrics cannot.
Smart Fabrics are ones which can change automatically to their surrounding. Smart fabrics are being developed to be able to sense what is happening to the wearer or its immediated surroundings.
Smart Textile
Smart textiles are defined as textiles that can sense and react via an active control mechanism to environmental conditions or stimuli, such as mechanical, thermal, magnetic, chemical, electrical, or other sources. They are able to sense and respond to external conditions (stimuli) in a predetermined way.
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School of Materials
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The textile industry is about to take a giant step from being a supplier of fabrics to become a positive force in the development of society. Textile innovations improve people’s everyday lives and benefit the industry, the health care sector and the environment.
Smart textiles can be defined as textiles that are able to sense and respond to changes in their environment.
The integration of electronics in clothing promises a variety of new products and applications. . Whether for performance or aesthetic reasons, the focus within the textiles orb is on smart fabrics – from those that change their hue to those that regulate body temperature. Researchers are developing smart fabrics that do things that traditional fabrics cannot.
Smart Fabrics are ones which can change automatically to their surrounding. Smart fabrics are being developed to be able to sense what is happening to the wearer or its immediated surroundings.
Smart Textile
Smart textiles are defined as textiles that can sense and react via an active control mechanism to environmental conditions or stimuli, such as mechanical, thermal, magnetic, chemical, electrical, or other sources. They are able to sense and respond to external conditions (stimuli) in a predetermined way.
According to engineering curriculum we have to choose a topic which is currently trending in the engineerig field. So, I had prepared a ppt on the topic Smart Fabrics for my seminar. You can also refer to this ppt . I hope this ppt would be informative for you. I have also uploaded the pdf of seminar report for this topic.
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Smart Textiles – Adding Value to Sri Lankan Textiles The Electronic Textiles Option (Handout)
By Tilak Dias
School of Materials
The University of Manchester, UK
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Smart textiles are defined as textiles that interact with their surroundings. Basically smart textiles are referred to as those textiles that are able to react and adapt to an environment stimulus. The origin of the stimulus and the response can be either from an electrical, thermal, chemical or magnetic source.
Abstract : Smart textiles or E-Textiles are the fabrics that have been created by embedding smart wearables into garments. Clothing is the only wearable that can be adjust to our everyday lifestyle over the course of a lifetime. It appears as a strong candidate to become the next interface between the real and the digital world by replacing or extending the use of smartphones and other portable connected devices. . During the last few decades we have witnessed the increase in the demand of smart textiles based on IoT i.e. smart sportswear, smart dresses for army personals, smart medical textiles etc. IoT refers to a system in which many computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people are interrelated and are provided with a unique identification, Have the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring interaction between human to human or human to computer. These textiles have huge potential applications, such as the ability to communicate with other devices, transform into other materials, conduct energy and protect the wearer from environmental hazards. In the present time when all are concerned about their health so these Smart textiles can help to monitor their health parameters such as heart rate, perspiration rate, calorie count, sleep monitoring, body temperature through which we can do a simple self-assessment of our health. These functionalities can be achieved by incorporating different sensors into the garments. The basic material used to construct these smart textiles are conductive threads and yarns that can be pure metal based or blended with natural fibres, conductive polymer coated and special carbon based yarns. These smart textiles can sense and react to environmental conditions or stimuli, from mechanical, thermal, magnetic, chemical, electrical, or other sources. This paper focuses on the application of wearable smart textiles or e-textiles.
Keywords: IoT based smart textiles, Wearable textiles, Sensors, Conductive polymers and Yarns
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3.
Can respond to
environmental stimulus……
These stimuli could be
a)thermal
b)chemical
c)mechanical
d)electric
e)magnetic etc
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4. Easily
blend into the
fabrics without causing
much discomfort…
Smart Fabrics have
sensors made through
nanotechnology elements
that can measure
important data about a
person’s body or
surroundings.
As such, they can be
used for medical, athletic
and a multitude of other
purposes
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was made with cotton fibers.
5. 1.
Passive smart
fabrics:-
Sense environmental
conditions or
stimulus
2. Active smart
fabrics:
Actuators and
sensors
Central control
unit present
3. Ultra smart fabrics: Sense,react and
adapt themselves to
the environment
Cognition,reasoning
and activating
capacities
electric fibers woven into
silk organza material.
6. 1.
Temperature Sensitive Fabrics:-
Fabrics
are really going to give a tough competition
to human intelligence!
Protect
Mostly
human body against heat and cold….
used to make outdoor garments such as
hats, jackets etc
7. One
of ways of making it is
treating it with parrafins..
As the body gets hot
the paraffins become more liquid
to let the heat pass out
the body gets cold
it solidifies so that it keeps
back the heat with the wearer
8. 2. HEALTH MONITERING FABRICS:
Now regular visits for health related tests can be
forgotten!
Most used health smart fabrics are the
microencapsulated fabrics….
The clothings enriched with substances like
vitamins, algae or nutrients along with other
substances to delay ageing or for improving blood
circulation….
9. Medically
beneficial electrically
conductive smart fabrics like
life vests can track heart rate,
body temperature etc….
A carbon nanotube-coated
"smart yarn" that conducts
electricity could be woven
into soft fabrics that detect
blood and monitor health
10. 3. Emergency Fabrics: Although health monitoring fabrics are in a way
emergency fabrics only, yet certain developments
in the field of smart fabrics are in the pipeline that
can really be called Disaster wear!...
A
system is being developed to monitor the wearer
and the outside environment which can be helpful
for rescue workers like fire fighters.
11.
Some projects are aiming at
stretchable electronics by
developing conducting
substrates within the very
weave of fabric, which will
allow sensors to move with
the body….
It can find applications in
oximetry – a smart noninvasive way to measure the
oxygen content of blood.
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12. 4. MILITARY: US special forces could soon be wearing
smart fabrics that monitor how they cope
during combat situations.
The fabric gathers information on heart
beat, skin temperature, posture, activity
and breathing rate when against the skin.
One such fabric has been developed by a
US company called ZEPHR
13. Military
uniform that integrates
information technology is being made
by the South Korean Army….
14. 5. COMMUNICATION:
Clothing that can
communicate could help alert
others about where a missing
person is, or other data
communicated through smart
fabric…
Embedded into one's tshirt or
fabric swatch worn
somewhere into your body
could be a device that
communicates your GPS…
15. 6. ENTERTAINMENT: Jackets
are being
made with mini
music systems…
BMW
is going to
have touch sensitive
smart fabrics…
Coloured fabrics
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2.
3.
Nomex is a smart
fabric used to provide
thermal protection. It is
incorporated into
firefighter’s gear.
The smart fabric Kevlar
is about five times
stronger than steel.
Thermo-chromatic
smart fabric changes
color as the
temperature changes.
It is used in sun wear
to warn of impending
burning of the skin…
17. Smart Fabric technology has
the potential to radically
change the mobile
computing industry……
Imagine pants that are also
batteries to power various
mobile devices…….
Hats with cellular antenna
boosters
keypad on cloth
18.
Hospital bed sheets that monitor patients; medical
monitors that are impossible to forget because
they are part of your clothing.
Shirt sleeves with data storage….