Title :
Smart Textiles: From Niche to Mainstream
Author :
Jingyuan Cheng ; Lukowicz, Paul ; Henze, Norm ; Schmidt, A. ; Amft, Oliver ; Salvatore, G.A. ; Troster, G.
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;
Journal_Title :
Pervasive Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MPRV.2013.55
