Applied Sciences (Apr 2021)

Future Trend in Wearable Electronics in the Textile Industry

  • Chi-Wai Kan,
  • Yin-Ling Lam

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/app11093914
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 9
p. 3914

Abstract

Read online

Smart wearable textiles can sense, react, and adapt themselves to external conditions or stimuli, and they can be divided into active and passive smart wearable textiles, which can work with the human brain for cognition, reasoning, and activating capacity. Wearable technology is among the fastest growing parts of health, entertainment, and education. In the future, the development of wearable electronics will be focused on multifunctional, user-friendly, and user acceptance and comfort features and shall be based on advanced electronic textile systems.

Keywords