Future Trend in Wearable Electronics in the Textile Industry

Chi-Wai Kan,Yin-Ling Lam

doi:10.3390/app11093914

Abstract

Smart wearable textiles can sense, react, and adapt themselves to external conditions or stimuli, and they can be divided into active and passive smart wearable textiles, which can work with the human brain for cognition, reasoning, and activating capacity. Wearable technology is among the fastest growing parts of health, entertainment, and education. In the future, the development of wearable electronics will be focused on multifunctional, user-friendly, and user acceptance and comfort features and shall be based on advanced electronic textile systems.

Highlights

Textiles embedded with electronic devices can be classified into three major areas, smart clothing, electrical engineering, and information science, as shown in Figure 1 [1]
Smart clothing items integrate a high level of intelligence and can be divided into three sub-groups: passive smart textiles, active smart textiles, and very smart textiles [2,3]
A term used for very smart textiles, can sense, react, and adapt themselves to external conditions or stimuli, and they can be divided into active and passive smart wearable textiles, which can work with the human brain for cognition, reasoning, and activating capacity [1]

Summary

Introduction

In this example, each sensor is responsible for the specific measurement and analysis for monitoring human health information. Carbon electrodes integrated into fabrics can be used to detect specific environWearable technology started to revolutionize healthcare by assisting doctors in the opermental or biomedical features such as access oxygen, moisture, or contaminants ating room and providing real-time tosalinity, electronic health records [9,23]. Use, offer high-quality HD video recording, improved GPS functions, and waterproof (b) Entertainment Smart wearable devices such as miniature cameras can be worn on a garment while being controlled via a mobile app.

Electronic Textile Wearing Systems

Technical Limitations in Wearable Technology

Important Features in Wearable Technology Development