Smart Textile

Smart textiles, also known as datawear, are materials and structures that sense and respond to environmental conditions or stimuli, such as stimuli from mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic or other sources. The data wear is made of conductive elastic fibers, and the body unit consists of a jacket, pants, and gloves, which interact with the computer through electronic circuits or wired means. Applications for data wear are tracking the position of limbs in computer data, medical imaging, measurement, ergonomics, biomechanics, robotics, and animation. The whole body can be monitored by data wearing, also called life jacket, it is made of special weaving technology, it is one piece, without any cut or seam. The main task of smart textiles is to monitor the wearer's heart rate, electrocardiogram, respiration, temperature and a host of vital functions, alerting the wearer or doctor if something goes wrong. Smart shirts can also be used to monitor vital signs such as law enforcement officers, firefighters, astronauts, military personnel, chronically ill patients, elderly people living alone, athletes, and babies (to prevent sudden infant death syndrome).