Wearable Technology

This chapter explores the relationship between ethics, wearable technology and higher education through the lens of teaching with Google Glass.  Beginning with an introduction to Glass and to the contemporary concept of the digital citizen, the chapter traces out a pedagogical framework aimed at preparing learners to embrace their civic duty to contribute to the virtual world responsibly. Continuing with an investigation of ethical obligations, educational concepts, and learning exercises made available by advances in HET the chapter describes how to use Google Glass as a case study for examining the limits and possibilities of a new point-of-view angle on interactive instruction. To this end, students’ project-based and experiential learning about how Glass impacts communication culture and technology, commerce, security, access, etiquette, branding, ethics and law is described. The chapter concludes with a discussion of how technology’s ethical consciousness continues to be enacted and embodied via a “collusive” point-of-view angle and third voice that shed light on the ongoing rhetorical and pedagogical processes of expression, experience and identification in the "Gigabit Age."

The Cardinal goal of this research work is to fabricate hybrid composites of AA8011 with reinforcement particles of Zr 2 O 3 and Al 2 O 3 which was taken in equal (5wt%) weight percentage. The hybrid composites were cast in a square shape (50x50x50 mm size) under the optimal stir casted process parametric condition, further, it was taken for the forging process. The prepared specimens were induced for uni-direction (x), bi-direction (x and y) and multi-direction (x,y, and z) forging route and the response of microhardness of 53, 68, 81 and 96 VHN were obtained respectively due to microstructural phase changes with an even distribution of particles in the matrix. Thus, the tribological properties of prepared specimens were tested using pin-on-disc Tribometer at room temperature under dry sliding condition of load 5,10,15,20 N and by adjusting the sliding speed as 266 and 531 rpm respectively. The outcomes uncovered all the specimens that the wear rate increments with an increase in load and coefficient of friction show an increase at most extreme load conditions. Wear rate increments with increment in the sliding distance and Coefficient of friction also increment in sliding speed. As a result, it was concluded that multi-directional forged hybrid metal matrix composite was far better than uni and bi-directional forging specimens. The prepared specimen was prescribed for high precision parts inferable from its better tribological executions.

The term “Wearable computing” brings to mind an image of a human-computer symbiote with circuitry embedded in his clothing, an electronic monocule for display and a onehanded input device. Although such systems may seem more the realm of science fiction than everyday fact, researchers have demonstrated wearable computers with these characteristics. But is this the future of wearable computing? Just as personal computing is moving away from the beige box desktop, wearable computing will also not be a general- ...

Trunk exoskeletons are wearable devices that support humans during physically demanding tasks by reducing biomechanical loads on the back. While most trunk exoskeletons are rigid devices, more lightweight soft exoskeletons (exosuits) have recently been developed. One such exosuit is the HeroWear Apex, which achieved promising results in the developers’ own work but has not been independently evaluated. This paper thus presents an evaluation of the Apex with 20 adult participants during multiple brief tasks: standing up from a stool with a symmetric or asymmetric load, lifting a unilateral or bilateral load from the floor to waist level, lifting the same bilateral load with a 90-degree turn to the right, lowering a bilateral load from waist level to floor, and walking while carrying a bilateral load. The tasks were performed in an ABA-style protocol: first with exosuit assistance disengaged, then with it engaged, then disengaged again. Four measurement types were taken: electromyography (of the erector spinae, rectus abdominis, and middle trapezius), trunk kinematics, self-report ratings, and heart rate. The exosuit decreased the erector spinae electromyogram by about 15% during object lifting and lowering tasks; furthermore, participants found the exosuit mildly to moderately helpful. No adverse effects on other muscles or during non-lifting tasks were noted, and a decrease in middle trapezius electromyogram was observed for one task. This confirms that the HeroWear Apex could reduce muscle demand and fatigue. The results may transfer to other exoskeletons with similar design principles, and may inform researchers working with other wearable devices.

The Fashion & the Senses Symposium held at LCF on 27th March 2015 was an international multi-disciplinary forum for industry professionals, practitioners, academics and postgraduate students with a shared interest in this emerging field - fashion and the senses. It was co-organised by Sara Chong Kwan, Associate Lecturer in Cultural and Historical studies at LCF and a final year PhD candidate, and Bethan Alexander,  Course Director of the MA in Fashion Retail Management at LCF.

The PhD dissertation Cyberpunk and New Media Art: Digital Art and Performance aims to examine the literary and visual legacy of the Cyberpunk movement and to explore its ideas, concepts and methodologies in the context of New Media artistic practices. The goal of this work is to comment on a multidisciplinary level on the influence of Cyberpunk theory and aesthetics. Furthermore, it seeks to identify its practice in the construction of the creative mechanisms of contemporary digital art and media performance.
The Cyberpunk phenomenon is approached through the definition of its socio- historical, philosophical and aesthetic context as a science fiction genre. Likewise, New Media Art is defined through the characteristics of its language, its precursors, its pioneers and the state of the digital art currents. By focusing on the terminology and the creative expression of Cyberpunk and Media Art, this thesis sets off to examine the artistic results that emerge from their union. Special emphasis is given to the fields of virtual technologies, technology and mythology and the body as a technologically enhanced interface.

"Mintha mindent megírt volna a szerző a digitális médiáról és az azzal érkezett új társadalomról. Ahogy látom, mindent meg is írt, vagy ha nem, én nem jöttem rá, mi az. Hihetetlenül szórakoztató, nagyon jól demonstráló, érdekes példákkal alátámasztott magyarázatok, amiket élmény olvasni. Intellektuálisan izgató könyv!" Heal Edina igazgató, Google Magyarország

"A kötet alapmű a digitális trendek áttekintéséhez és megértéséhez. Egyszerre ad muníciót több szakmának - az IT-tól a marketingig, az üzleti döntéshozástól a felsőoktatás-kutatásig és a művészetig. A szerző átfogó nemzetközi tapasztalatát kamatoztatja példáival és illusztrációival. Az olvasó végül egy hosszabb távon érvényes kötet birtokosa lehet a gyorsan változó trendek világában." Akadémiai Kiadó

New forms of wearable technology are blurring the lines between technology and bodies, raising questions about personhood, self-hood, and what it means to be human. Consequently, scholars are examining these iterations of body/machine interface and human machine communication from a variety of angles. While fashion scholars focused primarily on garments and celebrating potential techno‐futures, media and communication scholars more critically examined how wearable tech mediates bodies and relationships. Social scientists are concerned with issues of labor, privacy, data ownership, and value, drawing on ethnographic studies of the Quantified Self (QS) community and the phenomenon of self‐track-ing more generally. This scholarship is rooted in studies and theori-zations of ubiquitous computing, feminist science and technology studies (STS), and fashion and dress as both ornament and second skin. Generally, it asks how wearable technology can augment the human body, how it affects human relationships to self and other, and whether wearable technology can promote human autonomy, when it is locked into commercial and power relationships that don't necessarily have the users' best interests at heart. The essay ends by briefly outlining of directions for further research, urging further investigation into wearable tech exhibiting gendered attitudes toward " femme " women, and calling for increased attention to issues raised by wearable technology's coming merger with the growing fields of biotech and synthetic biology.

Biomonitoring digital devices have become popular in physical activities and are receiving intensive focus as motivational and support vehicles for health. The aim of this article is to develop a new theoretical framework to analyze biomonitoring from the two perspectives constituting the opposite ends of the big data spectrum: individual (micro) and institutional (macro). In applying phenomenology of the body, discussions of choreography, and Latour's actor–network theory, I seek to evolve a choreography-based approach that can outline feedback systems between embodied practices and the macrolevel choreography of big data. Health informatics data as economic and political assets are illustrated based on netnography. Netnographic methodology pays close attention to online fieldwork and media texts. Emphasizing the lived body in the analysis of knowledge infrastructure, I aim to contribute to the theoretical discussion of human–data interaction. The findings suggest that highly intimate, personal technology can distance people from their lived bodies.

The increasing ageing global population is causing an upsurge in ailments related to old age, primarily dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, frailty, Parkinson’s, and cardiovascular disease, but also a general need for general eldercare as well as active and healthy ageing. In turn, there is a need for constant monitoring and assistance, intervention, and support, causing a considerable financial and human burden on individuals and their caregivers. Interconnected sensing technology, such as IoT wearables and devices, present a promising solution for objective, reliable, and remote monitoring, assessment, and support through ambient assisted living. This paper presents a review of such solutions including both earlier review studies and individual case studies, rapidly evolving in the last decade. In doing so, it examines and categorizes them according to common aspects of interest such as health focus, from specific ailments to general eldercare; IoT technologies, from wearables to sm...

This work presents a new system for sport monitoring. The system was composed of a t-shirt with two textile electrodes and two devices for the acquisition, storage, processing and visualization of the signals. The systems allows monitoring both ECG signal (raw and processed heart-rate) and 3 axial acceleration (raw and step counter). The systems were tested in different conditions during some races; we report the results on three subjects during a skyrunning race.

Il multiplo nelle sue relazioni con l’arte e l’industria è il punto di partenza per un’indagine sull’evoluzione del design del gioiello. Verso il superamento di un’obsoleta nozione di serialità industriale, la gioielleria contemporanea si contraddistingue come un ambito di ricerca fortemente innovativo, per la sua capacità di intendere l’oggetto attraverso nuove estetiche, significati e materiali, verso un’idea di multiplo singolare. La ricerca apre una prospettiva progettuale ad un gioiello pensato per un consumo non solo tangibile ma intellettuale, poiché dilata i suoi significati a un più ampio spettro di temi e finalità, come la sostenibilità, l’innovazione materico-tecnologica, le problematiche di natura politica e sociale che interessano la contemporaneità. Dal digitale al postdigitale, mescolando atomi e bits, anche il design del gioiello costruisce inediti scenari, dove software innovativi, scanner 3D, manipolazioni di materiali e contaminazioni transdisciplinari espandono i confini della ricerca.

Smart fabrics, generally regarded as smart Textiles are fabrics that have embedded electronics and interconnections woven into them, resulting in physical flexibility that is not achievable with other known electronic manufacturing techniques. Interconnections and components are intrinsic to the fabric therefore are not visible and less susceptible of getting tangled by surrounding objects. Smart fabrics can also more easily adapt to quick changes in the sensing and computational requirements of any specific application, this feature being useful for power management and context awareness. For electronic systems to be part of our day-today outfits such electronic devices need to conform to requirements as regards wear-ability, this is the vision of wearable technology. Wearable systems are characterized by their capability to automatically identify the activity and the behavioral status of their wearer as well as of the situation around them, and to use this information to adjust the systems' configuration and functionality. This write-up focused on recent developments in the field of Smart Fabrics and pays particular attention to the materials and their manufacturing techniques.

The popularity of wearable technologies have increased day by day. In the near future, wearable technologies are
expected to become an indispensable part of our daily life. The aim of this study is twofold. The first one is the classification
of wearable technologies based on the specifications and applications as; wearable health technologies, wearable textile
technologies, and wearable consumer electronics. The second aim of the study is study is to point out how wearable
technologies will be a milestone both for daily life of people and the way of doing businesses of the companies in the future.
The potential applications indicate that the future will be safer, easier, healthier, quicker, and more entertaining with the
wearable technologies

The adverse effect of sleepy driving is a big concern and is closely related to numerous near-misses and driving accidents. Detection of drowsiness using wearable sensors leads to attempts to identify driver sleepiness by incorporating emerging technology for real-time sleepiness detection. This paper presents a wearable pre-frontal single-channel Electroencephalogram (EEG) tool that will determine the state of the mind of the driver automatically, drowsy which focus on the transition from awake to asleep and non-drowsy. A driving experimental setup was designed and conducted using 10 participant participants. The system is integrated with an alarm system which will activate when the brain activity fluctuates that utilized Arduino module. Collected data included the continuous driving time prior to detection of drowsiness. Numerical labels 1 and 0 are applied to the performance of the system. A value of 1 is given to the point at which the participant is already in the drowsy state ...

Connecting the dots between discoveries in neuroscience (neuroplasticity), psychoneuroimmunology(the brain-immune loop) and user experience (gadget rub-off) indicate the nature of our time spent with gadgets is a vector in human health - mentally, socially and physically. The positive design of our interactions with devices therefore can have a positive impact on economy, civilization and society. Likewise, the absence of design that encourages positive interaction may encourage undesirable behaviors. Much like the architecture of physical spaces and buildings, the consequences of the architecture of the 21stcentury conversation between man and machine may last generations. AI and the Internet of Things are primary vectors for positive and negative impacts of technology.  We describe a growing body of co-discoveries occurring across a variety of disciplines that support the argument for human sciences in technology design.    The paper brings the rigors of science to bear on the humanities and makes the case for its relevance at this juncture in time to the design of technology involved in conversation and behaviors between humans and machines .

Innovation and increased access to wearable technologies are poised to inspire a new generation of technology-enhanced learning environments. Wearables provide students and teachers with hands-free access to contextually-relevant knowledge, which can be displayed as a 3D virtual world or overlaid on smart glasses, accessed via a smart watch or wristband, or used for providing biofeedback through EEG monitoring. A wide range of wearable devices is avail-able, and it is often difficult for educators to introduce these advanced techniques into higher education contexts. This paper presents three examples of the kinds of educational applications that have been delivered in Australia and indicate key considerations for educators aiming to develop their practice and embed wearable tools into the classroom.

With this project, we aim to design a robot arm. This robot arm will be controlled wirelessly through a wearable glove. This will be done via a bluetooth connection. Moreover, the use of many circuit elements they use in their own projects for beginners will be shown. Systems can be briefly you out with this project:
• Arduino use,
• Use of  bluetooth module,
• Communication between two Arduinos,
• Using Servo motor with Flex sensor data.
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Alzheimer's disease may be a serious disease occurring in most of the population. Taking care of the patients with Alzheimer disease are often both physically and mentally demanding. At an equivalent time, it's also important to permit the patients to measure on an independent life. the foremost widely known sort is Alzheimer's infection, which delete the individual's memory that creates the well-known encompassing new for them. handling the overall population with Alzheimer seems to be exceptionally troublesome and trying for his or her family, this infection regularly prompts to wandering which may be a stern sympathy toward numerous families who stress that the patient could be lost or stroll into slippery conditions. To affect such situation, this autonomous device will provide a private assistance to the patients affected by Alzheimer.

As the technology is integrated into different disciplines, we witness how powerful it can be. Rather than standing in isolation, technology changes the nature of the field it arrives in. Wearable technologies in fashion design education is a good example for this. Wearable technology defined as lightweight, easy portable and wearable smart devices that have sensors and computing capabilities. The structure of wearable technologies has brought a new trend to fashion design area. Fashion design, as known to be a very dynamic application area, has already accepted the issue and started using the most powerful examples of wearable technologies already. However, although the stages are using wearable technologies, the schools that graduate fashion designers of the future are far beyond the capacity of the stages. It is therefore; this paper brings suggestions for the integration of technology into fashion design departments in Turkey and while doing this it tries to be country specific....

This review is designed to briefly engage the historical foundations upon which technology was initiated and iterated through history, and most particularly as technology applies to teaching and learning in and out of the physical classroom.  It discusses the compression of time, space, and place, as well as the imposition of time itself onto culture. 
The review examines relatively recent technologies such as film, radio, and Television as applied to teaching and learning, and correlates to teachers’ reluctance related to the inclusion of technology in their pedagogy.  Ubiquitous technology such as smart phones and wireless connections and how they tether to new wearable technologies are given broad inclusion as are fitness trackers, smart watches, wearable cameras, smart fabrics, medical wearables, and augmented reality (through the use of Google Glass). 
A brief discussion of Visual Culture as well as the future of wearables, balance the changes we may soon see in the emerging wearable area. Most importantly, focus is directed to the potential inclusion of wearable technologies in teaching and learning, including a series of scenarios that may indicate the affordances these new technologies could bring into teachers’ overall curriculum. 
It further engages the two research questions outlined in the introduction. 
It is clear from the literature and from studies utilized in this paper, that many educators are engaged and excited about introducing wearables into their teaching.  The cross-disciplinary opportunities are extensive, and many examples play out in the samples and scenarios in this paper.

In India, 174 children go missing every day. The issue is disturbing for the society and even for parents. Whenever the child leaves the house there is always a second thought in parents’ mind. To counter such doubts, a student tracker is formulated which not only provides live location of their ward but also helps in predicting and tracking their upcoming movements. The device is equipped with GPS, GSM and RFID modules with efficient backbone supporting the hardware.

The aim of this Systematic Literature Review is to provide a heuristic overview on the recent trends of wearable technology and to assess their potential in workplaces. The search procedure resulted a total of 34 studies. In more details, 29 different types of wearable devices were obtained from the studies. Categorization revealed that obtained wearable devices were used for monitoring: 18 types (e.g. for mental stress, progress, etc.), augmenting: 3 types (e.g. for data, images), assisting: 3 types (e.g. to uplift their work), delivering: 2 types (e.g. for vital information contents) and tracking: 8 types (e.g. sedentary behaviour). To sum up, though wearable technology has already gained momentum for personal use to monitor daily activities, our studies shows that it also has potential to increase work efficiency among employees, improve worker's physical well-being and reduce work related injuries. Further work in terms of privacy, usability, security, policies, cost of devices and its integration to the existing system is required in order to increase the adoption rate of wearable devices in workplaces.

The being and being, aspects of the living (human and non-human) are closely related to information of all kinds, they are directly connected with a flow of thoughts in coexistence with the surrounding and powerful environment, and therefore, with the sensations and with the body.
Given this situation, it has been of interest, from a portable material and textile project such as a simple scarf, to address various instances of transmission and situated communication, this textile being implemented with digital data systems (data capturers), a means to publicize possibilities of scenarios and actions aimed at manifesting from different spaces and times to a type of invented, fictional writing from which each person from the web of this project idea, could assign a code (a word or letter) to each drawing of the pictogram that appears, which specifically, the idea is that it has the ability to be interactive from the space of a web, to become, from the wearable, a proposal for writing and situated experience, but very experimental, in a system that from any place the textile piece emits this data of the environment, transformed to the web in pictograms, turning the textile into an interface for to carry out a type of writing (web) based on this game with the data transformed into a pictogram, that is, into signs, symbols, drawings, therefore, an attempt will be made to generate a new game proposal with an indeterminate type of writing (algorithmic), where the most relevant is the space and time that surrounds us and surrounds us in relation to the body, the wearable, and virtual spatiality, this being a personal gratification of the situation of the real, of the dynamics of being a user and of the subject defined as one more animal of this physical and virtual herd characterized by having created a system of networks and communications.
That is to say, with this project, we want to play and ironize experimenting from the wearable, with the concept of transmission, situationality and writing in different spaces and times: the real and the virtual, to be able to graph a type of system (non-linear) already times indecipherable (or chaotic) of current reality.

" Hyperdressing " is inspired by the writings of Timothy Morton and his concepts hyperobjects and ecological thought. This paper views the evolution of wearable technologies in terms of both dressing and environmental awareness. Historically, dressing has always been bound up with technology. Ideas, behaviors, and materials come together on our bodies so as to administer to our human condition. Since the rise of capitalism, the dominant paradigm for dressing has been fashion. The paper focuses on fashion as one of the premises driving current wearable technology trends. The others are ubiquitous computing, affective computing, our innate yearning for perfection, and the Quantified Self. Sleek products like Google Glass offer both style and enhancement: a framing of reality as expanding information brought under our control and tailored to us. But the paper describes alternative wearable technology research that presumes a world increasingly beyond our control. As technology changes, dressing now undergoes a slow, steady disruption—a transformation from the fashion paradigm that serves individual self or self-identity, to a next phase. Will dressing accessorize a Quantified Self based in biometric devices that accelerate environmental waste? Or might we dress for greater intimacy and openness amid overpowering natural forces and hyperobjects?

In recent years, rapid development and changes in technology, has brought significant changes in the structure of production as well as consumption structure. Especially the new generation consumers in the countries which there are large young population like Turkey have also been the focus of attention of technology companies because they have more innovative and complex structure from traditional consumers. The decreasing of Internet usage cost, the increasing of access facilities and increasing of available devices for mobile internet using have led to the increase of researches about consumer habits and the adoption of new technologies like this. Mobile Technologies that begins to become important in the consumers' lifes have created a new economic space with new Technologies and also have brought many innovations in social and cultural context. Considering from this perspective, The main purpose of the study is on increase in market share of wearable technology that can be used with mobile technology and the adoption to these technologies of consumers. In this way, this study aims to reveal the affecting factors on the adoption of wearable technology with survey application.

Wearables have increasingly been appearing in various forms as technologies that have the potential to support teaching and learning. This chapter surveys a number of recent and current wearable technology projects in the educational technology, learning sciences, and human-computer interaction literatures to illustrate the diversity of wearable technologies. It also identifies some regularities in how various forms of wearables are being deployed to support learning. These forms of support include using wearables to: promote personal expression; integrate digital information into social interactions; support educative role-play; provide just-in-time notification in a learning environment; and produce records of bodily experience for subsequent inspection, reflection, and interpretation. While examples of each support are provided, two more extended descriptions from the authors' recent and ongoing work with wearables are given as examples of how human and other animal bodily experiences can be harnessed to support learning. Future directions and considerations for educational technologists are discussed.

INTRODUCTION
The chapter is founded on the premise that current wearable technology design practices represent a reductionist view of human capacity. The democratization of technology into work, play, home, and mobile social networks in recent years has seen traditional human–computer interaction (HCI) design methodology broadened through the integration of other methodologies and knowledge from the humanities such as social science, anthropology, and ethnography. The field of HCI is inherently interdisciplinary and its history is one of the inevitable disciplinary multiculturalisms spawned by the expansive impact of technological growth.
What questions should we be asking to engage a more critical design perspective? This chapter extends traditional functionalist approaches to design to engage cultural, experience-based, and techno-futurist approaches. Wearable technologies are therefore discussed in terms of their critical, political, ethical, and speculative potential, and case studies are presented to illustrate and exemplify the ideas promulgated.
The chapter is organized into three sections. The first section proposes the role of the designer to be one that includes a cultural approach to designing future scenarios—one that considers ethical and speculative implications of how our embodied materiality is affected by emerging technologies. What is the relationship of the self to the proliferating wearable technologies? How is our sense of self changing as new technologies mediate the space between our experience of self and the world? We develop a methodology that asks designers and technologists to build future scenarios and envision how our embodied materiality is affected by emerging technologies. Using a philosophical framework we explore design and its implications on the relationship of the self to the self and to social relationships. We then investigate how technologies such as Google Glasses and Quantified Self applications inform our relationship to our self and redefine our social interactions.
The second section discusses the self and the social politic of wearable technologies from macro to micro perspectives. Considering wider supply and production chains and regulatory systems whose existence shapes the production and meaning of wearables—both their material form and design, and the movement of gathered data from the body into wider dispersed networks of power. Moving from the micro (technology/body) to the macro (systems of production), we consider where control lies across these networks, at what unit of analysis, and what their impact could be on the wider world as they are dispersed.
The final section adopts a techno futurist approach proposing synaptic sculpture as a process for creative design that engages vibrant materiality and the interconnected body. The section describes the emergence of a new paradigm in terms of our augmented perspective—our perception of scale expanding our awareness and sensitivity across macro- and nanolevels. These new spheres of awareness become our normative environment—ones with an amplified awareness of the instability, fungability, and interconnectedness of things. This perspective promulgates the space of design to be in the interface as mediator of experience, rather than design of objects or products. We propose the need to develop a connoisseur of somesthetic qualities surrounding the design of wearables. This subverts the traditional fashion design methodology away from the trickle-down theory to one that can enhance a relationship between designer and user who can become coproducers and connects materiality to anthropology and the lived experience of the individual.

Every day, people need to be trained, either to complement their professional skills or because of personal interests that lead to their well-being. Online education, especially MOOC and SPOC are good alternatives for carrying out continuing educational processes, but are not enough when it comes to learning motor skills. This paper shows a research approach on how MOOC can expand its functionalities so that it can be applied to learning motor skills. It also proposes the development of a project to integrate three components: the integration component, the wearable component and the Open edX component for the future development of a "salsa" course. Finally, it proposes an architecture based on the 4+1 view model to show the functionality in different areas of the design.

—Today, wearable internet-of-things (wIoT) devices continuously flood the cloud data centers at an enormous rate. This increases a demand to deploy an edge infrastructure for computing, intelligence, and storage close to the users. The emerging paradigm of fog computing could play an important role to make wIoT more efficient and affordable. Fog computing is known as the cloud on the ground. This paper presents an end-to-end architecture that performs data conditioning and intelligent filtering for generating smart analytics from wearable data. In wIoT, wearable sensor devices serve on one end while the cloud backend offers services on the other end. We developed a prototype of smart fog gateway (a middle layer) using Intel Edison and Raspberry Pi. We discussed the role of the smart fog gateway in orchestrating the process of data conditioning, intelligent filtering, smart analytics, and selective transfer to the cloud for long-term storage and temporal variability monitoring. We benchmarked the performance of developed prototypes on real-world data from smart e-textile gloves. Results demonstrated the usability and potential of proposed architecture for converting the real-world data into useful analytics while making use of knowledge-based models. In this way, the smart fog gateway enhances the end-to-end interaction between wearables (sensor devices) and the cloud.