Content: Front Cover
Wearables, Smart Textiles & Smart Apparel
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface
Why this book?
How this book is constructed
Who this book concerns
The technical level
Pedagogy
Note to Readers
Preamble
PART 1 Introduction to the World of Wearables
Introduction to Part 1
1. Definitions and Position
1.1. A few definitions
1.2. The position of this book
2. Non-textile and Textile Wearables
2.1. Non-textile Wearables or "accessories"
2.2. "Textile" Wearables
2.3. Smart textiles
2.4. Materials
2.5. Smart textile systems and their typologies 3. The Market --
the Applications3.1. The world of the Internet of Things
3.2. The world of Wearables
3.3. A view of the market from the consumer side
PART 2 Constraints of a Wearable Project
Introduction to Part 2
4. Aspects to Take into Consideration for Wearables, Smart Textiles and Smart Apparel
4.1. Financial and marketing aspects
4.2. Ergonomic aspects
4.3. Technical aspects
4.4. Energy aspects
4.5. Industrial aspects
4.6. Regulatory aspects and recommendations
4.7. Normative aspects
4.8. Applicative aspects
4.9. Security aspects
4.10. Cost aspects PART 3 Examples of Non-textile Wearables and Smart Textiles and ApparelIntroduction to Part 3
5. Examples of Non-textile Wearables
5.1. General public (consumer) type
5.2. The Luxury Style type
5.3. The sports type
5.4. The automobile type
5.5. The medical types
5.6. The security type --
PPE
6. Examples of Smart Fibers and Smart Textiles
6.1. A few words of introduction
6.2. Fibers
6.3. Textile/fabric/cloth
6.4. A few words on technologies
7. The Future of Smart Fibers and Smart Textiles
7.1. Wellbeing
7.2. Smart fibers
8. Examples of Smart Apparel
8.1. Fashion PART 4 The Technologies Behind WearablesIntroduction to Part 4
9. Components
9.1. Sensors
9.2. CPU and power consumption
9.3. Actuators
9.4. Printed circuit boards, connectors and electrodes
PART 5 Wearables: Smart Apparel, RF Connectivity and Big Data
Introduction to Part 5
10. RF Connectivity in Wearables
10.1. RF connectivity in Wearables
10.2. From Wearables to a whole connected world
11. Global Architecture of Wearables:Connected Textiles
11.1. Communication models in the IoT and Wearables
11.2. Architectures of Wearable solutions
11.3. The very numerous protocols in use PART 6 Description of the Wearables and Connected Textiles Chain12. Chain for a Connected Wearable
12.1. From the gateway to the server
12.2. The server
12.3. The broker
12.4. Return from Cloud server to end users
12.5. "Cloud"
12.6. Big data
PART 7 Concrete Realization of a Wearables/Smart Textiles Solution: Examples and Costs
Introduction to Part 7
13. Examples of Concrete Realization of Wearables: Smart Connected Apparel
13.1. General electronic architecture of a Wearable
13.2. Physical architecture of a communicating Wearable
14. Cost Aspects
14.1. CAPEX and OPEX