SMART FABRICS

BY:
GARIMA KASAT
 INTRODUCTION
 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SMART AND INTELLIGENT FABRICS
 TYPES OF SMART FABRICS
 WORKING OF SMART FABRICS
 APPLICATIONS OF SMART FABRICS
 SOME INNOVATIVE SMART FABRICS
 MERITS OF SMART FABRICS
 DEMERITS OF SMART FABRICS
 REFERENCES
 FABRICS

TRADITIONAL
E-TEXTILES
FABRICS

INTELLIGENT
SMART FABRICS
FABRICS
 TEXTILES
 E-textiles, also known as smart garments, smart
clothing or electronic textiles are fabrics that
enable digital components such as a battery and
a light (including small computers), and
electronics to be embedded in them.

 E-Textiles are further divided into two groups:

 Smart Fabrics
 Intelligent Fabrics
SMART FABRICS
The Fabrics which have sense or can sense the
environmental conditions or stimuli.

INTELLIGENT FABRICS
The fabrics which not only can sense but also can
react and respond to environmental conditions or
stimuli.
These stimuli and response can be thermal,
mechanical, chemical, magnetic, electric or from
other source.
 According to the way of reaction, E-Textiles can
be divided into passive smart, active smart and
very smart materials:

 Passive smart materials can only sense the

environmental conditions or stimuli, they are
only sensors, they can't react.

 Active smart materials can sense and also react

to the environmental conditions or stimuli.

 Very smart materials can sense, react and adapt

themselves according to the environment.
 Smart textiles can be broken into two different
categories:
 Aesthetic
 Performance enhancing

 Aesthetic Textiles are fabrics that light up and

fabrics that can change colour.

 Performance enhancing smart textiles are intended

for use in athletic, extreme sports and military
applications. These include fabrics designed to
regulate body temperature, reduce wind resistance,
and control muscle vibrations – all of which may
improve athletic performance.
Busses, microcontrollers, Keyboards and
touch pads are embedded with smart fabrics
The microcontroller is directly connected to
the fabric
The keypad shown here has been produced
using ordinary embroidery techniques and
mildly conductive thread
The keypad is flexible, durable and
responsive to touch
A printed circuit board supports the
components necessary to do capacitive
sensing and output key press events
as a serial data stream
Temperature Sensitive Fabrics
These fabrics act according to the temperature body
There are treated with paraffins
As the body gets hot, the paraffins get more liquid to
pass the heat out
As the body gets cold, it gets more solid to keep back
heat with the wearer
Health Monitoring Fabrics
These fabrics helps to monitor the health
These fabrics are enriched with substances like vitamins,
algae or nutrients along with other substances
They delay ageing and improve blood circulation
These fabrics can track heart rate, ECG and body
temperature
Fashion and Entertainment
These fabrics are Club wear that reacts to movement, heat
and light
They also include garments with panels that illuminate
when the dancer moves, or clothing that contain fibre optics
integrated into the fabric

Transport and Automotive Use

Modern contemporary cars contain control panels that
activate heated seats, air-bags
Interactive electronics and technical textiles have uses in
space shuttles, aircraft and racing cars
Military Use
Need for the protection and survivability of the forces
working in extreme environmental conditions
CUTECIRCUIT
 CuteCircuit is a fashion company based in London founded in
2004 by Ryan Genz and Francesca Rosella
Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz themselves designs wearable
technology and interactive fashion
It was the first fashion company offering smart textile-based
CuteCircuit designs dresses and costumes for international
artists, special performances or tours
Such as Katy Perry’s catsuit for her performance in American
Idol was designed by CuteCircuit
The World’s very first wearable, sharable, programmable T-
shirt was designed by CuteCircuit
GALAXY DRESS
M DRESS
TshirtOS
HUG SHIRT
KINETIC DRESS
GRAPHENE DRESS
THE SOUND SHIRT
THE AQUA DRESS
THE HIBISCUS DRESS
 The Galaxy Dress is the center piece of the “Fast Forward:
Inventing the Future” exhibit at the Museum of Science and
Industry in Chicago
 It is embroidered with 24000 full color pixels
 It is the largest wearable display in the world
 It uses the smallest full-color pixels about 2 by 2 mm
 The extra-thin electronics allows the design to follow the
body shape closely like with normal fabric
 It is designed to work with a number of iPOD batteries
 It does not overheat and consumes very little electricity
 It is lightweight but the 40 layer pleated silk organza
crinoline makes the skirt wide
 The areas without lights are decorated with more than 4000
hand-applied swarovski crystals that make a gradient from
clear crystal to bright pink, so the dress looks good also
when it is switched off
M DRESS
 In2008 CuteCircuit designed the M Dress
that accepts a standard SIM card and allows
to make and receive calls anytime,
everywhere, without having to carry a cellular
phone
 The wearer inserts their usual SIM card in the
small slot and the dress is ready to be used
 CuteCircuit introduced special gesture
recognition software to allow the M-Dress to
work in an easy way
 When the dress rings, the simple gesture of
bringing your hand to the ear will allow the
sensor to open the call
 when done talking the gesture of releasing
the hand downwards will close the call
 Itis designed by the CuteCircuit company
 TshirtOS is the world's first wearable, sharable,
programmable t-shirt, that can be programmed by
an iOS app to show images and texts, play music,
take photos and share them with everybody
 TshirtOS allow you to share your Facebook Status
and your Tweets, your favourite songs and pictures
 The tshirtOS, now renamed InfiniTShirt, is a Patent
Pending product of CuteCircuit worldwide
 Easy to use, the tshirtOS features thousands of full
colour pixels arranged in a soft wearable grid, it is
controlled using an App on your mobile phone
 TshirtOS includes a built-in micro-camera,
microphone, accelerometer and speakers
 The Soundshirt allows a deaf person to feel music on their
skin
 The Soundshirt features 16 micro-actuators embedded in
the fabric of the garment, these actuators receive
wirelessly and in real-time the music, transformed in data
 In this way the violins can be felt on the arms and the
drums on the back creating a fully immersive feeling for a
deaf audience member
 Essentially the entire composition comes to life as a
language composed of a series of haptic (touch-like)
sensations across the torso of the person wearing the shirt
 The design of the shirt is comfortable and made of soft
stretch fabric, there are no wires in the garment as it is
built using the most advanced smart textiles and wearable
technology
 The musical jacket was first developed in the fall of
1997
 The Musical Jacket is a wearable stand-alone
musical instrument
 It contains a wearable MIDI synthesizer, batteries, a
fabric data, power and audio bus and an
embroidered keypad
 Touch the embroidered keypad to play music. The
keypad uses a capacitive sensing method to sense
touch. The sensing electronics place a small
electrical charge on each number embroidered with
conductive thread
 When the wearer touches the embroidered number,
his/her body draws the charge to ground. The
electronics sense this change and trigger a musical
event.
 There’s now no need to crack open your
laptop or walk around waving your PDA about
to find out if there’s a WiFi signal
 The Wi-Fi Detector T-shirt displays the
current WiFi signal strength in your
surroundings
 Glowing bars on the front of the shirt
dynamically change as the WiFi signal
strength fluctuates
 Perfect for finding the best places to access
WiFi in Coffee Shops and even in your own
home or workplace
Light weight
Durable
Washable
Integratable with human body
Pierce resistant
Tracking/communication systems
Monitoring systems
Usable in security authentication
Needs to be charged
Bulky
Expensive
Yet to be commercially recognized
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