Connecting wearable textile transmission lines: all‐textile fabrication solutions and design techniques

Electrical Characterization of Textile Transmission Lines

In this paper, electrical characterization and modeling of conductive textiles are presented. A dedicated measurement setup has been developed to allow reliable connection of the textile samples with the equipment cables. Geometrical fabric structures and fabrication tolerances as well as high frequency properties up to 6 GHz for four types of textiles have been determined. Transmission lines w...

E-broidery: Design and Fabrication of Textile- Based Computing E-broidery: Design and Fabrication of Textile-Based Computing

Fabrication and Measurement Techniques of Wearable and Flexible Antennas

When compared with other antenna types, flexible and wearable antennas are generally characterized by compactness, reconfigurability, flexibility, and durability. Therefore, the fabrication processes and materials used in flexible and wearable antennas are quite unconventional and need to be addressed and evaluated. Moreover, additional measurement setups and tuning methods are often required i...

Wearable Textile Elongation Sensor

This work shows a developed wearable elongation sensor based on an optical fiber. The presented approach to sew a fiber optic into a lycra textile enables the modulation of light amplitude in respect to textile strain. This apparatus in combination with small-size instrumentation enables the development of a wearable textile garment capable of monitoring and acquiring strain data, and send it w...

Textile Materials for the Design of Wearable Antennas: A Survey

In the broad context of Wireless Body Sensor Networks for healthcare and pervasive applications, the design of wearable antennas offers the possibility of ubiquitous monitoring, communication and energy harvesting and storage. Specific requirements for wearable antennas are a planar structure and flexible construction materials. Several properties of the materials influence the behaviour of the...