Open AccessFABRIC BASED WEARABLE SENSOR STRUCTURES
Author(s) -
Aytül Timoçin,
Özlem Kayacan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
tex teh
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2068-9101
DOI - 10.35530/tt.2019.44
Subject(s) - wearable computer , wearable technology , electronics , textile , computer science , electrical conductor , materials science , electrical engineering , embedded system , engineering , composite material
Nowadays, the electronics are free of their rigid structures and become flexible. As a result of thisstructural transformation and minimization of electronic materials, they can be integrated into textiles aswearable devices. The sensors are one of the main structures of personalized wearable monitoring devices and they can be classified into physical, chemical, electrical and biological ones. The wearable electronic sensors are able to monitor majorly biomedical signals and other ambient variants. Gesture, body temperature,respiration, pulse, blood gas etc. are among the measured physiological parameters. The other monitoredparameters can be defined as environmental variants such as ambient temperature, humidity, sound, gas etc.Different types of textile based sensors are used in wearable personalized devices using different conductivematerials in order to measure the vital parameters. Metal coated fabrics, fibres containing metals or metalbased additives, knitted and woven structures produced by using conductive yarns etc. can be used as textile based sensors. These sensor structures can be used in several fields such as medical, sport, artistic communities,military and aerospace.In this paper fabric, based wearable sensor types will be reviewed and a lso it will be focused on the recentadvances in the field of these sensors and their usage areas.