Smart Fabrics; Fabrics or Textiles That Can Sense and React to Environmental Stimuli
Smart Fabrics Smart fabrics, also known as smart textiles, smart garments, or smart clothing, are a type of fabric in which electronic devices such as integrated circuits, batteries, conductors, LEDs, and others are embedded to offer an added value to the wearer. Smart textiles can sense and respond to environmental stimuli, including chemical, biological, mechanical, thermal, and magnetic, among others. Thus, smart fabrics are widely used in healthcare, military and defense, fashion and entertainment, architecture, and transportation. Smart fabrics are made from various materials such as Kevlar, cotton, nylon, and polyester, among others. Smart textiles can both perceive or communicate the environmental conditions and can detect and process the wearer's condition. Smart fabrics are manufactured to include technologies that provide the wearer with increased functionality. Smart fabrics are widely used in the healthcare industr y and military and defense. S...