Towards the Development of a Smart Wearable Device Based on Electrically Conductive Yarns
Slavomír Matúška, Róbert Hudec, Martin Vestenický · Transportation research procedia · 2019
This paper proposes smart wearable device based on electrically conductive yarns. The proposed platform collects data from two independent accelerators and gyroscopes and sends it via Wi-Fi to a server for processing and storage. All electrical connections between a microcontroller, gyroscopes and others parts of the smart wearable device are created using electrically conductive yarns. These conductive connections are sewn with embroidery machine Barudan BEXT-S1501CII. Different pattern designs and stitches are presented and a functional prototype is shown. The prototype’s main computing unit is based on Arduino platform because of its simplicity and ease of implementation.