Engineering Proceedings, Volume 15, Issue 1

E-textile sensor networks enable a variety of applications including pervasive monitoring for distributed healthcare. While commercial wearables can now measure various quantities such as heart rate and activities in a real-time, robust, and pervasiv...

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are a key application underpinned by advances in electronic textiles (e-textiles). Achieving higher throughput, data-rate, network capacity, and delivering wireless power to miniaturized devices requires WBANs to o...

In this paper, we investigate the use of augmented reality technology within an E-textile environment. We place particular emphasis on the analysis of key performance and responsiveness metrics when utilizing augmented reality (AR) applications for e...

This study reports a design of an e-textile microstrip patch antenna for wireless sensing of the moisture content of a fabric substrate. The microstrip patch antenna with a proximity coupled feeding line is implemented on two layers of polyester felt...

The current study assessed the validity of a Kinematic Knee Sleeve (KiTT) against a gold-standard motion-capture system (Vicon, Oxofrd, UK). The relative knee angle, measured in the sagittal plane (RKA), was measured across a range of sporting moveme...

Three-dimensional knitted helical coils are very sensitive inductive sensors that can be used to monitor breathing. Their inductance is high and the quality factor relatively low. A read-out circuit is designed and tested to track the inductance vari...

Ferroelectret is a charged polymer with cellular void structures that create giant dipole moments across the material’s thickness. In this work, we present the first realization of a wearable textile substrate tactile sensor based on Polypropyl...

We present a highly sensitive wearable angular position sensor to measure joint movement. The sensor is a 3D helical coil knitted in the sleeve of a garment by circularly knitting thin insulated metal wire and yarn simultaneously. The sensing mechani...

This research utilizes a simple and effective dip coating/ultrasonication method to prepare porous graphene-coated sensing fabrics made with commercially produced acrylic/spandex yarn with multifunctional performance. We examine the electrochemical p...

Electronic yarns (E-yarns) are a type of electronic textile where the electronics are embedded within the yarn structure, resulting in a yarn with normal textile properties. This is achieved by soldering thin copper wires onto electronic components,...