Wearables : Smart Textiles and Smart Clothes

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