Smart Clothes

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Smart Clothes

• By Han Wang and Longyu Zhang

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OUTLINE

• What is Smart Clothes?
• Current Development
• Transition from research to marketplace
• Trends
• References

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What is Smart Clothes?

• Definition Smart Clothes are smart textile-based
  wearable systems.
• Beginning 1990s.
• Related Technologies Wireless sensor networks
  (WSN), GPRS, Bluetooth, Micro-processing, et al

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Current Development

1. Healthcare Monitoring
2. Communications
3. Device Control
4. Haptics

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Healthcare Monitoring

• Foundations
• Smart textile or sensors embedded in textile
• Microprocessor
• Signal Processing
• Wireless Communications

• Sensor embedded in textile

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Process of Healthcare Monitoring
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Communications

• With wireless communication devices in the
  smart clothes, we can easily realize
  communications by adding microphone, earphone,
  screen and keyboard on the sleeve to control the
  cell-phone.
• Thus, we can achieve other functions which
  can be done by cell-phones, like locating,
  calculating, playing games, and the like.

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Device Control

• We can add a special button on keyboard of
  the sleeve to order the micro-controller to
  search and build connection with certain devices
  through Bluetooth. Then we can still use the
  keyboard to control other devices.

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Haptics

• By adding vibrators and accelermeters in to
  the smart clothes, we can realize functions like
  Hugme haptic jacket.
• Also, if we want to have a relax, we can use
  the keyboard to active certain vibrators to have
  a massage.

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Transition from research to marketplace

• Technology Success Factors

• The success of any product in the marketplace
  depends on
• Effectiveness
• Cost
• Quality
• Convenience

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Effectiveness

• Effectiveness means the products can successfully
  understand the users needs and meet them.
• Continuous monitoring. Heart disease, Diabetes,
  and Influenza
• No discomfort and irritation.
• Can be fashionable

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Cost-Benefit Analysis

• Monitoring of individual will indeed increase the
  cost.
• However, investment in prevention is a lot less
  than the total cost of treatment. For chronic
  diseases, systematic intervention would save on
  expensive treatments.
• Whats more, life is priceless.

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Quality

• Smart clothes will improve the quality of care
  dramatically.

• Real time
• Deal with emergency
• Automation of data processing can eliminate any
  potential errors from manually recording the
  data.

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Trends

• Medical care T-shirt
• Clothes used for special profession
• Remote Device Control
• More accurate feedback

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Medical care T-shirt

• Made of regular fabric, can be easily folded,
  washed, looks and feels familiar as a normal
  T-shirt
• It has implemented a whole sensor processing
  system, this system can sense users heart beat
  rates, blood pressure et al.
• Can implement emergency measures like electrical
  CPR when heart beat rates become zero

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Clothes of special profession

• Fireman clothes
• Fireproof, Vibrator
• and GPS system,
• communication system.
• Diving cloth
• Depth indicator, auxiliary equipment, Internal
  pressure adjustable

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Clothes of special profession

• Pilot clothes
• Height indicator, Physical sign monitor,
  communication system
• DIY the clothes you need
• You can design a clothes with any function you
  want

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Remote device control

• Control the electrical devices of our house,
  office et al.
• Using WiFi or bluetooth to build up the
  connection
• Highly integrated, one button can control all the
  necessary facilities

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More accurate feedback

• Sensors can be more sensitive
• The smart clothes gives users a feedback in forms
  of pressure, sound, heat or any other
  sense-perception so that it can provide the user
  more information
• The feedback can be more accurate and reliable,
  so that it can be used in some special or
  emergency usages.

Longyu Zhang and Han Wang, University of Ottawa
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