TY  - JOUR
T1  - Rapid prototyping of smart garments for activity-aware applications
A1  - Harms, Holger
A1  - Amft, Oliver
A1  - Roggen, Daniel
A1  - Tröster, Gerhard
JA  - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE)
Y1  - 2009
N2  - Continuous miniaturization of electronics and sensing elements stimulate the evolution of novel unobtrusively integrated
smart garments that sense their environment and provide personalized assistance to its wearer. The development of smart
garments requires robust integration techniques for electronics and textiles in one common system. Furthermore, recognition
algorithms are needed to derive information on the wearer’s activity and context within the smart garment. In this work both
challenges are addressed in a smart shirt system, called SMASH. SMASH was developed as a rapid prototyping system for smart
garment developments. We introduced in this work our approach for prototyping smart garments and present design, implementation,
and evaluation of SMASH. The SMASH system embeds a distributed hierarchical architecture of sensing and processing
functions in an off-the-shelf long-sleeve shirt. The system design focused on scalability regarding sensors and processing
resources, as well as rapid deployment in different applications. We demonstrated the versatility of SMASH in three application
evaluations that represent different prototyping phases of smart garments. For these studies several systems of different sizes were
implemented. The SMASH system helps to bypass time- and cost-intensive implementation iterations using multiple garment
prototypes.
ER  -