A Wearable Fabric Computer by Planar-Fashionable Circuit Board Technique

Author

Kim, Hyejung ; Kim, Yongsang ; Kim, Binhee ; Yoo, Hoi-Jun

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng., KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea

fYear

2009

fDate

3-5 June 2009

Firstpage

282

Lastpage

285

Abstract

A method to fabricate circuits on the cloth, planar fashionable circuit board (P-FCB), is proposed. And its applications such as fabric passive elements, user I/O interface, and the fabric package are introduced. The electrical and the mechanical characteristic analysis of P-FCB and the system integration methodology establishment improve the system performance and productivity. A complete wearable system is implemented by P-FCB technology for the continuous sweat monitoring and the RFID tag antenna applications.

Keywords

capacitive sensors; chemical sensors; chemical variables measurement; radiofrequency identification; wearable computers; RFID tag antenna application; continuous sweat monitoring; electrical characteristic analysis; fabric package; fabric passive elements; mechanical characteristic analysis; planar-fashionable circuit board technique; system integration; system performance; user I/O interface; wearable fabric computer; wearable system; Application software; Biomedical monitoring; Fabrics; Packaging; Performance analysis; Printed circuits; Productivity; RFID tags; System performance; Wearable computers; Fabric circuit board; capacitive sensor; sweat monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, 2009. BSN 2009. Sixth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Berkeley, CA

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3644-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BSN.2009.51

Filename

5226876