What are the application areas of smart clothing?

Intelligent clothing is an organic combination of textile engineering, electronic information science, materials science, humanities, and other related disciplines. Perception, response, and feedback are the three major elements of intelligent clothing. In short, smart clothing is a product of the combination of clothing and intelligent technology. Comfort, intelligence, and functionality are the current and future trends in clothing development.

According to the application field of smart clothing, it can be mainly divided into four categories: life and entertainment, sports and fitness, medical care, and military equipment.
Category 1: Life and entertainment
Smart clothing, lifestyle and entertainment, focuses on people's experience of clothing and life. The intelligent functions mainly include: positioning navigation, answering calls, playing music, electronic payment, emotional expression, game interaction, etc.

Category 2: Physical exercise
The emergence of intelligent clothing is closely related to the improvement of consumer health and exercise awareness. Intelligent gymnastics suits can record data such as step count, respiratory rate, heart rate, and calorie expenditure. In addition to monitoring body parameters, this system can also help athletes confirm their position, orientation, and speed, and provide real-time feedback to guide users in correcting their posture.

Category 3: Healthcare
Medical smart clothing is an important application direction for the future development of smart clothing. It has the function of monitoring human body information, mainly referring to accurately collecting physiological characteristics of the human body, such as heart rate, electrocardiogram, blood pressure, body temperature, pulse, pressure, electromyographic signals, etc., providing reference data for human condition. In this way, the wearer can always understand their health status and promptly treat those with problems, which can be called the wearer's personal healthcare doctor.

Category 4: Military equipment category
Military intelligent clothing can not only monitor various indicators of soldiers' bodies, but also resist attacks from flames, weapons, chemicals, and even have "invisible" and therapeutic effects. For example, smart battle uniforms and nano stealth military uniforms can enhance soldiers' combat capabilities and protect their bodies.