Smart clothes
Under Smart Clothes (English: smart / clever clothes , hence I-Wear ) refers to garments , which with electronic equipped devices or functions. The specialty of this clothing is that the electronics are not visible from the outside, so that conductor tracks u. Ä. Woven into the textiles.
A possible differentiation from functional textiles is the energy dependency of electronified smart clothes, whereas the effect of functional clothing mostly comes about passively due to the properties of the fabrics and materials used. In common parlance, this distinction is often not made so strictly and smart clothes are v. a. seen as the next high-tech variant of functional clothing, they can also develop their effect passively. Examples include a. antibacterial textiles coated with silver.
Smart clothes are a complementary development to other portable electronic devices ( wearables ) such as activity trackers or smartwatches and, together with these, promise a largely invisible and seamless integration u. a. the functions of a smartphone that are already common today in everyday life. In contrast to functionally equivalent implants such as subcutaneous RFID chips (example: VeriChip ), these gadgets can still be stored. All of these trends are based on the networking of the individual via M2M communication, especially in the Internet of Things .
use
Smart clothes are already being sold, but are not yet very widespread (as of December 2009). That is precisely why clothing manufacturers see enormous future potential in them. For example, it should be possible to determine the health of the wearer using sensors in the clothing. In an emergency, an emergency call could then be sent automatically. In the opinion of many manufacturers, entertainment media such as MP3 players or portable microcomputers will soon be an integral part of clothing. Other ideas are integrated cell phones or air conditioning. Use cases are:
- (Real-time) monitoring
- the vital parameters of the (sick or convalescent) wearer, s. a. E-health
- of athletes training data
- the whereabouts of children via GPS
- by special personnel in handling hazardous substances
- the position and status of soldiers in action
- the level of alertness of pilots or truck drivers (portable attention assistant )
- Wearable sensors as a replacement for senses lost through disability
- (active) thermoregulation , s. a. Textile heating system
- telecommunications
- Fashion innovations
See also
- Pervasive computing
- Tracking
- Google Glass
- E-broidery
- Quantified Self
- Self-optimization
- Cyborg , android
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Healing shirts . In: Die ZEIT .
- ↑ Implanted chips: It gets under the skin. In: Spiegel Online . January 10, 2006, accessed June 9, 2018 .