The wrist is not the best place to place a large number of sensors, and tracking fitness is not the best application for sensors.
Why do we always remember watches and bracelets? The wearable market is now full of fitness products. Those who like to exercise, wearing a smart bracelet on their wrists and a smart phone in their pockets, no one in the industry is willing to admit that this is a problem.
But the wrist is not the best place to put a lot of sensors, and tracking fitness is not the best application for sensors. If we want to make "wearable devices" a real wearable device, we need to pay attention to the clothes we wear every day. If we want a wearable device truly useful, we can not only consider the pedometer and the like, but need to be developed that will give practical advice and useful data, new technologies to improve our quality of life.
Don't develop bracelets anymore, let's develop smart clothes.
Although the idea of ​​smart clothing has existed for several years, so far, it has not really been realized. Big companies like Samsung, Google, OMSignal, HexoSkin and UnderArmour have begun to think about how to make the clothes they wear as smart as the phones in their pockets. Since most wearable devices are based on sports and fitness, most of the smart clothing to date has followed those footprints, but it offers incredible fitness metric accuracy and detailed exercise analysis. Fortunately, many companies are beginning to think about things other than fitness running, and the smart clothing they are developing may be the future of wearable technology.
Regardless of age, gender, and fitness level, you have to wear clothes every day, which is why smart clothes are wearable devices that everyone can use. In the morning, it takes almost no effort to put on a smart T-shirt or wear a smart bra. You don't have to change your behavior to adapt to high technology.
Currently, the main problem with smart bracelets and smart watches is that they are too conspicuous. From the hard object we tried to wear a year or two ago, although they have improved a lot, there are still many problems, such as you have to pick it up, charge it, read the record, put it properly, and so on. Imagine if your coat, pants, socks or shoes did it for you, you don't need to spend a lot of time and energy to enjoy the benefits of wearable technology. Because you wear clothes all the time, if the fabric covering your body is smarter, it will make it easier for you to pay close attention to your overall health without forcing you to go to the gym or wear things that you wouldn't normally wear.
Smart clothing has more styles, colors and varieties
Wearable technology is best when it doesn't show up. That's why smart jewellery that doesn't look "advanced", fancy or cumbersome, and smart watches that look like ordinary watches are more appealing.
Although smart clothing has a very common look, they are easier to customize than other wearable devices. You can easily integrate sensors into any type of clothing, and you can easily create 20 different color options and styles for a smart T-shirt, but if you create more than one smart watch style, it will cost a lot of money. And the amount of work. Smart clothing has more styles, colors, and varieties than other wearable devices.
Take a look at Samsung's recent prototype of wearable technology: a belt that lets you know when you're gaining weight; a very stylish business suit that hides NFC buttons in your cuffs; and track golf swings Golf ball and smart fitness clothes. All of these are great wearables, not because they have the same technology as your fitness bracelet, but because they don't look like hard-boned high-tech.
This is a dream shared by many people, including the founder of the Google Jacquard project, Park Lough. During the Google I/O 2015 conference, Poploff showed a new way to weave touch screens into traditional fabrics using old-fashioned textile manufacturing processes. Google's yarns have a conductive metal core that is mixed with conventional fibers and can be dyed in any color. Google is working with Levi's and other companies to realize the dream of high-tech clothing using traditional technology. They will conduct a limited edition of internal testing by the end of this year and officially launch this "smart jacket" in 2017. After wearing a smart jacket, you can directly control your mobile phone through clothes, play music directly, display maps, etc. on the sleeves of the jacket.
The American Noble Biomaterials Company developed Circuitex technology to embed electronic circuits in smart clothing. These circuits enable the detection, transmission and protection of electrical signals in smart clothing. Using this technology, traditional printed circuit circuits can be directly converted to fabric.
Clothing+ is a Finnish company that integrates this technology into sportswear and medical clothing. They believe that people are increasingly interested in understanding their physical condition and getting viable advice based on the physical data obtained. In terms of direct interaction with the human body, the clothes we wear are unmatched by any other wearable device.
In 2014, American fashion brand Ralph Lauren launched an intelligent sports t-shirt designed by OMSignal called "PoloTechShirt" at the tennis tournament to collect athletes' exercise data on the spot.
Well-known clothing brands have also entered the wearable field. In 2014, American fashion brand Ralph Lauren launched an intelligent sports t-shirt designed by OMSignal called "PoloTechShirt" at the tennis tournament to collect athletes' exercise data on the spot. Tommy Hilfiger introduces a solar-powered jacket, and Joe's Jeans recently created a pair of skinny jeans for women. This pair of jeans has a special pocket to charge the iPhone at any time. There are also accessories such as wallets and backpacks that also incorporate high-tech "smart". Backpacks that charge mobile phones while on the go have become items chased by hipsters.
The College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Chongqing University and the Georgia Institute of Technology recently released a "smart fabric" that can automatically supply electricity. This fabric can utilize both light energy and mechanical energy of human motion. The raw material is a polyester fiber with low cost and small mass, and a metal layer and a semiconductor coating are further plated on the surface of the fiber to form a solar cell power generation module capable of collecting light energy, and one can collect A power generation module with weak mechanical energy during motion. The processed fibers are woven with wool and woven into this kind of smart fabric, which can be used to make various styles of smart clothing.
Smart underwear will become a bestseller
Interestingly, although the smart clothing field was originally developed as a fitness outfit, a more reasonable choice might be the underwear that is most intimately in contact with the human body. Most people wear underwear every day, which will be the easiest choice for people to start using smart clothing. In fact, if you don't want to wear a lot of smart clothing or use it on high-tech clothes, you can use some smart socks and underwear to match.
Underwear is also the most reasonable place to wear a sensor to monitor a person's vital signs, because it is the most skin-tight clothing. Smart bras measure breathing, heart rate and muscle tone to determine health and mental indicators such as stress levels, participation, and anxiety. The same applies to smart underwear, smart socks or smart T-shirts.
The current fitness bracelet tries to get all the data from the human wrist, which is very difficult to do. Because of certain indicators such as muscle tension and respiration rate, the activity tracking on the wrist does not reach accuracy. Even a fitness tracker like the popular Fitbit, if you are always playing an exaggerated gesture while running or walking, there will be a big error in the number of steps read. Now, the accuracy of the fitness bracelet is a headache for every smart bracelet manufacturing company. Many researchers believe that placing a hip or foot tracker provides a more accurate measurement than a wrist-based fitness bracelet and smart watch. Why not stick all these sensors to your socks or underwear?
Some companies that develop smart clothing have good ideas. Smart bras and smart T-shirts developed by OMSignal and Sensoria can be worn under regular clothing or in the gym. Sensoria makes a pair of smart socks with a splicable sensor and conductive wire. HexoSkin also offers several smart T-shirts similar to OMSignal and Sensoria.
The next logical step is to put "smart" into ordinary underwear and clothes to track human health indicators, not just steps. After all, not everyone is a gym patron, but most people want to know their physical condition, stress level and so on.
Smart clothing will lead the next generation of wearable devices
OMSignal currently offers a range of sweatshirts for men and an intelligent sports bra for women that track the wearer's typical fitness metrics such as steps, running distance, calories and heart rate, as well as many other unique features. Measurements such as breathing efficiency, fatigue levels, and how much the human body is paying for exercise.
OMSignal's technology is relatively new. The data it gets from all the sensors on the clothes is not just for exercise analysis. The next project is to use biometric data to track the user's emotional health, such as breathing, heart rate and muscle tone. When you are stressed and stressed, your breathing becomes shallow, your heart rate increases, and your body tightens. OMSignal's smart bra or T-shirt recognizes all these physical changes and reminds you by push notifications to stop tension, take a deep breath, adjust yourself, and remember your emotional state to improve your mental and physical well-being.
OMSignal uses the OMSignal app to share your baby's heartbeat.
The company also hopes to enter the medical field of wearable technology through its smart clothing. In the future, pregnant women may be able to share their baby's heartbeat through the OMSignal app using data captured by sensors in smart clothes. People with heart or other disease problems can get a warning of physiological changes before an emergency occurs. Smart clothing can notify you, your loved ones, and even medical staff, telling them that you need help.
Smart clothing has the potential to step out of the smart circle of fitness applications, and truly become the mainstream of the market. If wearables really become mainstream in the market, smart clothing should be the leader.
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