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Smart Textiles for Personalized Sports and Healthcare.

Ziao Xu¹, Chentian Zhang¹, Faqiang Wang¹

¹College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620, People's Republic of China.

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Summary

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Smart textiles offer comfortable and accurate real-time sports monitoring. This review covers smart textile design, performance needs for vital signs and movement tracking, and applications in sports.

Keywords:

Intelligent sports Smart textiles Textile sensors Wearable electronics

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Area of Science:

Materials Science
Wearable Technology
Sports Science

Background:

Wearable electronics advance sports data collection for real-time analysis and precision.
Tracking health and exercise data is increasingly popular for fitness and well-being.
Comfort during prolonged wear, especially in intense sports, remains a challenge for current devices.

Purpose of the Study:

To review the progress of research on textile-based sports monitoring devices.
To systematically introduce the design principles and fabrication methods of smart textiles.
To discuss performance requirements for precise sports data collection and analyze applications, challenges, and opportunities.

Main Methods:

Systematic review of research on smart textiles for sports monitoring.
Introduction to textile manufacturing processes for integrating functional elements.
Discussion of performance requirements for vital signs, joint movement, and data transmission.
Demonstration of smart textile applications in various sports scenarios.

Main Results:

Textiles provide comfort through breathability and moisture-wicking, ideal for wearable platforms.
Smart textiles can be designed and fabricated to integrate functional elements at various manufacturing stages.
Performance requirements for accurate sports data collection include monitoring vital signs and joint movement, alongside reliable data transmission.

Conclusions:

Smart textiles offer a comfortable, accurate, and cost-effective solution for sports monitoring.
They function as efficient information-gathering terminals for personalized sports and healthcare.
Developing multifunctional, cost-effective textile-based systems is crucial for the future of intelligent sports.