Smart Bracelet Is No Longer In Sight, Intelligent Clothing Arises At The Historic Moment.

Although the idea of smart clothing has existed for several years, so far, it has not really been realized.

Big companies such as Samsung, Google, OMSignal, Hexo Skin and Under Armour have begun to consider how to make their clothes as smart as pocket phones.

Because most wearable devices are mainly sports and fitness, most of the smart clothing so far still follow those footprints, but it can provide incredible fitness indicators accuracy and detailed exercise analysis.

Luckily, many companies are starting to think about things other than fitness running, which they are developing.

It may be the future of wearable technology.

Regardless of age, sex and fitness level, you have to wear clothes every day, which is why smart clothing is a wearable device that everyone can use.

In the morning, put on an intelligent T-shirt or put on a smart T-shirt.

It hardly takes any effort.

You don't have to change your behavior to adapt to high technology.

At present, the main problem of smart bracelet and smart watch is that they are too conspicuous.

Starting from a hard hard substance we tried to wear one or two years ago, though they have improved a lot, there are still many problems, for example, you have to pick up, charge, read records, place properly, and so on every day.

You can imagine that if your coat, pants, socks or shoes do all this for you, you don't need to spend a lot of time and energy to enjoy the benefits of wearable technology.

Because you wear clothes all the time, if the fabric that covers your body is smarter, it will make it easier for you to pay close attention to your overall health, instead of forcing you to go to the gym or wear things that you usually don't wear.

Wearable technology is best when it doesn't show up.

That's why those smart watches that don't look too advanced, fancy or bulky, and smart watches that look like ordinary watches are more attractive.

Although smart clothing has a very common appearance, they are easier to customize than other wearable devices.

You can easily integrate sensors into any type of clothing, and can easily create 20 different color options and styles for an intelligent T-shirt, but if you create more than one smart watch style, you will have to spend a lot of money and work.

There are more styles, colors and varieties than other wearable devices.

Look at the latest Samsung Corp wearable technology archetype: a belt, let you know when you are gaining weight; a very fashionable business suit with NFC buttons hidden in cuffs; golf Jersey and smart fitness clothes that track golf swing strokes.

All these are excellent wearable devices, not because they have the same technology as your fitness bracelet, but because they don't look like hard tech.

This is a dream shared by many people, including Loew, founder of Google Jacquard project.

During the Google I / O 2015 conference, Loew showed a new way of weaving touch screens into traditional fabrics using the old textile manufacturing process.

The yarn of Google has a conductive metal core, which is mixed with conventional fibers and can be dyed to any color.

Google is working with Levi's and other companies to use traditional technology to realize their dream of high-tech clothing.

They will conduct a limited edition internal test by the end of this year, and this smart jacket will be launched in 2017.

After wearing smart jackets, you can directly control your cell phone through clothes.

Directly playing music and displaying maps on the sleeves.

American aristocratic biological materials company developed Circuitex technology, embedded electronic circuits in smart clothing.

These circuits can detect, pmit and protect electrical signals in smart clothing.

With this technology, the traditional printed circuit can be directly converted to the fabric.

Clothing is a Finland company that integrates such technologies.

And medical clothes.

They believe that people are more and more interested in understanding their physical condition and get feasible suggestions based on the body data obtained.

In terms of direct interaction with human body, the clothes we wear are incomparable to any other wearable devices.

In 2014, the American clothing brand Ralph Lauren (Ralph Lauren) launched a smart sports T-shirt called "Polo Tech Shirt" designed by the OMSignal company at the tennis open. It can collect athletes' exercise data on the spot.

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Brand has also entered the wearable field.

In 2014, the American clothing brand Ralph Lauren (Ralph Lauren) launched a smart sports T-shirt called "Polo Tech Shirt" designed by the OMSignal company at the tennis open. It can collect athletes' exercise data on the spot.

Tommy Hilfiger has launched a solar jacket, and Joe's Jeans has recently designed a pair of skinny jeans for women.

There is a special pocket that can charge iPhone at any time.

There are also some accessories, such as wallets and backpacks, which also incorporate high-tech "intelligence".

Those knapsack that can be charged for mobile phones on the road has become a popular pursuit.

Chongqing University, School of chemistry and chemical engineering and Georgia Institute of Technology recently released an intelligent fabric that can automatically supply electricity. The fabric can use both light energy and mechanical energy of human movement.

The raw material is a low cost and very low quality polyester fiber. Moreover, a metal layer and a semiconductor coating are coated on the surface of the fiber to form a solar cell generating module capable of collecting light energy, and a power module capable of collecting weak mechanical energy in motion.

The processed fibers are blended with wool and woven into this smart fabric, which can be used to make all kinds of styles.

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Interestingly, the field of smart clothing is initially developed.

But a more reasonable choice is perhaps the most intimate contact with the human body.

Most people wear underwear every day. This will be the easiest option for people to start using smart clothing.

In fact, if you don't want to wear a lot of smart clothes or spend money on high-tech clothes, you can first match some smart socks and underwear.

It is also the most sensible place to wear sensors to monitor people's vital signs, because it is the closest clothing to the skin.

Smart bra can measure breathing, heart rate and muscle tension to determine some health and mental indicators, such as stress level, participation in activities, anxiety and so on.

The same applies to smart underwear, smart socks or smart T-shirts.

The current exercise bracelet is trying to get all the data from the wrist, which is hard to do.

Because some indicators such as muscle tension and respiratory rate, the activity tracking on the wrist can not reach the accuracy.

Even a fitness tracker like Fitbit, which is popular in the market, will make a lot of errors if you are running or walking with exaggerated gestures.

Now, the accuracy of fitness bracelet is a headache for every smart Bracelet manufacturing company.

Many researchers believe that placing the tracker on the hip or foot is more accurate than wrist bracelet and smart watch.

Why not all of them?

Are they glued to socks or underwear?

Some development

Companies have very good ideas.

Smart bra and smart T-shirt developed by OMSignal and Sensoria can be worn under ordinary clothes or in the gym.

Sensoria makes a pair of smart socks with a pasting sensor and a guide wire. Hexo Skin also offers several smart T-shirts similar to OMSignal and Sensoria.

The next logical step is to put "intelligence" in ordinary underwear and clothing to track human health indicators, not just step counts.

After all, not everyone is a gym patron, but most people want to know their physical condition, mental stress level and so on.

OMSignal has launched a series of sportswear for men to launch an intelligent sports bra for women. These two products can track the typical fitness indicators such as step number, running distance, calorie and heart rate of the wearer, as well as many other unique measurement indicators, such as breathing efficiency, fatigue level, and how much the human body is doing for exercise.

The technology of OMSignal is relatively new.

It obtains data from all sensors on clothing not only for exercise analysis.

The next project is to use biometric data to track users' emotional health, such as breathing, heart rate and muscle tension.

When you are stressed and stressed, your breathing becomes shallow. Your heart rate increases and your body tightens.

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Or T-shirts can identify all these physical changes, and remind you by pushing the notice to stop tension, breathe deeply, adjust yourself, and remember your emotional state, so as to improve your mental and physical health level.

OMSignal uses the OMSignal app to share the heartbeat of the baby.

The company also hopes to enter the medical field of wearable technology through its smart clothing.

In the future, pregnant women may be able to use the data captured by sensors in smart clothing to share the heartbeat of the baby through the OMSignal application.

People with heart disease or other diseases can be warned of physiological changes before an emergency occurs.

Smart clothing can inform you, your loved ones, even medical personnel, tell them that you need help.

Smart clothing has the potential to get out of the small circle of smart bracelet's fitness application, and truly become the mainstream of the market.

If wearable devices really become the mainstream of the market, then

It should be the leader.