Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality, 2nd Edition

593Design Challenges of Real Wearable Computers

Curone etal. (2010) used three garment components: a T-shirt as inner garment,

a jacket as outer garment, and a pair of boots. Each component was sensor-equipped

for real-time monitoring of physiological, activity, and environmental parameters.

The inner garment included textile sensors connected to an electronic module via tex-

tile conductive cables. The outer garment included additional sensors to measure, for

example, external temperature, CO concentration, absolute position, and a processing

module for collecting and preprocessing data from different sensor nodes. Moreover,

electronic com