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.

2. “
Enable digital
and electronic
components to
be embedded
in them
Smart Fabrics”
Gives response in
whichever way
the user desires

3. 
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Can respond to
environmental stimulus……
These stimuli could be
a)thermal
b)chemical
c)mechanical
d)electric
e)magnetic etc
GLOVES CONTAINING VITAMINS

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:
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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.

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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.
WORN BY FIREMEN
PULSE OXIMETER

12. 4. MILITARY: US special forces could soon be wearing
smart fabrics that monitor how they cope
during combat situations.
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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…
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Coloured fabrics

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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

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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….