Wearables, Smart Textiles & Smart Apparel

"Wearables" are "all things that you wear" whether it is classic clothing, luxury, medical or professional use and protection or even accessories like sports bracelets, watches, glasses, fashion or sports shoes, etc. Today these "Wearables" are starting to come out of the woods and become really connected, intelligent. This book, the first of its kind on this topic, is divided into two major themes depending on whether the Wearables are part of the large textile family or not, and provides a broad overview of topics markets, applications, benefits, brakes and fears purchasing, technologies and connectivities implemented and emphasizes the industrial, normative, regulatory, economic, costs, etc. of the industrially emerging subject that are and will be the Wearables.

Discovers if wearables are part of the textile familyPresents all the negative and positive aspects of the "Wearables"Demonstrates the connection and intelligence of the "Wearables"

Part 1. Introduction to the World of Wearables 1. Definitions and Positions 2. Non-Textile and Textile Wearables 3. The Market - the Applications

Part 2. Constraints of a Wearable Project 4. Aspects to Take into Consideration for Wearables, Smart Textiles and Smart Apparel

Part 3. Examples of Non-textile Wearables and Smart Textiles and Apparel 5. Examples of Non-textile Wearables 6. Examples of Smart Fibers and Smart Textiles 7. The Future of Smart Fibers and Smart Textiles 8. Examples of Smart Apparel

Part 4. The Technologies Behind Wearables 9. Components

Part 5. Wearables: Smart Apparel, RF Connectivity and Big Data 10. RF Connectivity in Wearables 11. Global Architecture of Wearables: Connected Textiles

Part 6. Description of the Wearables and Connected Textiles Chain 12. Chain for a Connected Wearable

Part 7. Concrete Realization of a Wearables/Smart Textiles Solution: Examples and Costs 13. Examples of Concrete Realisation of Wearables: Smart Connected Apparel 14. Cost Aspects