• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Sensor Tips

Sensor Product News, Tips, and learning resources for the Design Engineering Professional.

  • What’s Hot
    • Development Tools
    • Energy Harvesting
    • Market Research
    • Packaging
    • Sensor Fusion
    • Sensor-specific software
    • Signal Conditioning
    • Touch Sensing
    • Wireless
  • Motion Sensing
  • Vision systems
    • Smart cameras
    • Vision software
    • Lighting
    • Optics
  • Pressure
  • Speed
  • Temperature
  • Suppliers
  • Video
  • EE Learning Center

How smart is your clothing?

January 27, 2020 By Randy Frank

In the 18th & 19th century, a smart dresser was also called a dandy and the term normally implied a middle-class man who dressed to appear that he was in high society. A female was called a dandizette.  As in most modern terms, dressing in smart clothing is unisex and the meaning of a smart dresser will be totally redefined.

Among the things that make smart clothing or a smart garment are sensors. In a recent report, market research firm Gartner assumes that by 2023, device makers will focus on offering smaller, clinical-grade sensors for health wearables to increase monitoring accuracy by 20%. Gartner has also predicted that smart garments will increase from almost nothing in 2014 to 19 million shipments in 2022. Other researchers, such as Statista, the featured image source, show even higher growth.

A team at Draper and the University of Colorado Boulder provide an excellent example of how this can occur. After determining that today’s wearable sensor systems do not perform as well in monitoring heart rates as traditional electrodes to detect the full electrocardiogram (ECG) waveform, they initiated an effort to improve the situation. The team ruled out conductive ink-based electrodes and planar-fashionable circuit boards (P-FCBs), which can be printed onto the fabric surface, for a variety of reasons, including P-FCBs’ requirement for advanced manufacturing methods to produce the conductive paste.

The team’s solution involves fabricating dry electrodes that are directly integrated in clothing. The sensing device conforms to the skin and avoids noise and artifact issues that normally occur due to the motion of similar dry electrodes across the skin. After validation tests, including ECG monitoring, comfort surveys with human subjects, stretch testing and wash cycling, the device’s performance matched the traditional electrode’s ability to detect the full ECG waveform.

You may also like:


  • How does 3GPP Release 13 impact sensors?

  • What is the current status of energy harvesting for wireless…

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Wearable sensing technologies Tagged With: Draper, Gartner, Statista, University of Colorado Boulder

Primary Sidebar

DesignFast

Component Selection Made Simple.

Try it Today
design fast globle

Subscribe to our Newsletter

Randy Frank delivers weekly sensor industry news, sensor resources, new sensor product innovations and more.

Subscribe Today

DESIGN GUIDE LIBRARY

“motion

EE TRAINING CENTER CLASSROOMS

“ee

“ee

“ee

“ee

“ee

“ee

RSS Current EDABoard.com discussions

  • could calibre lvs do not check mosfet B term
  • Sign-Off MMMC setup in 65nm CMOS
  • 1k to 2kHz Frequency converter
  • Mahindra Inverter continuous beep sound and all led glowing except battery indicator
  • Charge injection simulation in cadence

RSS Current Electro-Tech-Online.com Discussions

  • Voltage Regulator 12 - 5volt
  • XOR Gate Circuit From Diodes
  • Positive and negative sides of voltage source
  • DIY Mini 12v Router UPS malfunction
  • 24v dc relays not de-energising


SensorTips Videos

RSS Featured White Papers

  • Implementing Position Sensors for Hazardous Areas & Safety
  • How New Rotary Sensor Technology Enables New Application Solutions
  • Magnetic sensor ensures safety features in depaneling machines

Footer

EE WORLD ONLINE NETWORK

  • DesignFast
  • EE World Online
  • EDA Board Forums
  • Electro Tech Online Forums
  • Microcontroller Tips
  • Analog IC Tips
  • Connector Tips
  • Power Electronic Tips
  • Test and Measurement Tips
  • Wire and Cable Tips
  • 5G Technology World

SENSOR TIPS

  • Subscribe to our newsletter
  • Advertise with us
  • Contact us
  • About us
Follow us on TwitterAdd us on FacebookFollow us on YouTube Follow us on Instagram

Copyright © 2022 · WTWH Media LLC and its licensors. All rights reserved.
The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of WTWH Media.

Privacy Policy