Smart fabric, or "wearable clothing"

Post, E. Rehmi; Orth, Maggie

doi:10.1109/iswc.1997.629937

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“…2 b), in accordance with (1). As the electric field decays in the capacitors a magnetic field of frequency equal to the incident magnetic field appears across both inductors, the entry and exit inductor, which can be considered as one lumped inductance in accordance with (2). To the best of our knowledge this is the first time relay coils have been joined together to create this topology and we call this arrangement a 'Feed Coil'.…”

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“…Traditionally on-body power distribution for wearables has been limited to having a power source on one garment [2] and power could not be distributed to other garments, without coupling the garments or user intervention to electrically join the garments. To overcome this limitation we propose using inductive power transfer between garments as a non-contact method of transferring power, whilst maintaining compliance with international guidelines on electromagnetic safety levels for human tissue.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Garment level power distribution for wearables using inductive power transfer

Worgan

Fraser

2016

2016 9th International Conference on Human System Interactions (HSI)

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Section: Feed Coil Architecturementioning

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Garment level power distribution for wearables using inductive power transfer

Worgan

Fraser

2016

2016 9th International Conference on Human System Interactions (HSI)

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“…Examples are the FICOM research in the Disappearing Computer call of the European Union (www.disappearing-computer.org) or work at the MIT on Washable Computing (e.g. [PO97]). …”

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Data Paths in Wearable Communication Networks

Decker

Beigl

2002

Trends in Network and Pervasive Computing — ARCS 2002

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Abstract. Wearable communication networks are a new type of networks where communication wires are embedded into textiles. It allows the connection between sensors and devices embedded into the material. Data from such devices can be sent over various pieces of clothing to other devices in the network. A special characteristic of such a network is the unreliable connection between different pieces of clothing. This paper presents a prototype system and investigates routing methods using simulations of a fabric area network. Input data for simulations are derived from the operation of a first working prototype. Among the investigated routing methods are various Flooding, Hot-Potato and Simple Hot-Potato protocols. Throughput, way lengths and delay times were used as metrics. Results indicate that routing can optimize the performance of the FAN for each metric, but not for all metrics.

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“…For example, with the support of US Naval Department in 1996 Georgia Tech has developed a garment called Wearable Motherboard (with the commercial name of Smart shirt) [1], [2]. The Wearable Motherboard is a fabric featuring woven electric wires and/or optical fibres that serve as a flexible information bus.To integrate electronics directly into textiles leads to the so called technique of "wearable computing" or "E-textiles" [3]- [5]. Another application of smart textiles is in harnessing (and recently in storage) of the energy of human motion or the energy of various ambient fields, such as electromagnetic fields.…”

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Soft capacitor fibers using conductive polymers for electronic textiles

Gorgutsa

Skorobogatiy

2010

Smart Mater. Struct.

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Abstract-A novel, highly flexible, conductive polymer-based fiber with high electric capacitance is reported. In its crossection the fiber features a periodic sequence of hundreds of conductive and isolating plastic layers positioned around metallic electrodes. The fiber is fabricated using fiber drawing method, where a multi-material macroscopic preform is drawn into a sub-millimeter capacitor fiber in a single fabrication step. Several kilometres of fibers can be obtained from a single preform with fiber diameters ranging between 500μm -1000μm. A typical measured capacitance of our fibers is 60-100 nF/m and it is independent of the fiber diameter. For comparison, a coaxial cable of the comparable dimensions would have only ~0.06nF/m capacitance. Analysis of the fiber frequency response shows that in its simplest interrogation mode the capacitor fiber has a transverse resistance of 5 kΩm/L, which is inversely proportional to the fiber length L and is independent of the fiber diameter. Softness of the fiber materials, absence of liquid electrolyte in the fiber structure, ease of scalability to large production volumes, and high capacitance of our fibers make them interesting for various smart textile applications ranging from distributed sensing to energy storage.

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Smart fabric, or "wearable clothing"

Cited by 118 publications

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Garment level power distribution for wearables using inductive power transfer

Garment level power distribution for wearables using inductive power transfer

Data Paths in Wearable Communication Networks

Soft capacitor fibers using conductive polymers for electronic textiles

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