Smart Textiles: From Niche to Mainstream

Author

Jingyuan Cheng ; Lukowicz, Paul ; Henze, Norm ; Schmidt, A. ; Amft, Oliver ; Salvatore, G.A. ; Troster, G.

Volume

12

Issue

3

fYear

2013

fDate

July-Sept. 2013

Firstpage

81

Lastpage

84

Abstract

Current technology supports only special-purpose, low-volume textiles, garments, and electronics. Moreover, the textile, electronic, and software industries have different product cycles, cultures, and price models, creating scores of practical problems for smart textiles. Mass producing smart cloth will require decoupling the textile production from concrete sensing apps and moving the complexity to generic electronics and software--creating wearable sensing as an app.

Keywords

clothing; mass production; production engineering computing; textile industry; textiles; wearable computers; concrete sensing application; culture model; electronic industry; generic electronics; mass producing smart cloth; price model; product cycle; smart textile; software industry; textile industry; textile production; wearable sensing; Clothing; Fabrics; Sensors; Software engineering; Textiles; Wearable computers; pervasive computing; smart cloth; smart clothing; smart textiles; wearable computing; wearable sensing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Pervasive Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1268

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MPRV.2013.55

Filename

6562715