Intelligent clothing

Each item has a specific role, although intelligent suits do not need to contain all those functions6,77. They all require appropriate materials and structures and must be compatible with the function of clothing comfortable, durable and resistant to regular textile maintenance processes19. 

The definition of a sensor is that it reacts to a parameter (for example, the volume of the mercury pool in a thermometer increases with temperature), and the intensity of the reaction is in relation to the parameter - for example, the measurement of an electrical current that is in relation to the concentration of the analyte oxidised or reduced at the electrode surface. The parameter to be investigated is the concentration of the analyte, while the parameter measured is an electrical current. As for the real devices, ultimately most signals are being transformed into electric ones. Electroactive materials are consequently of utmost importance with respect to intelligent textiles. Of course, apart from technical considerations, concepts, materials, structures and treatments must focus on the appropriateness for use in or 

Data processing is one of the item components that needs attention only when active processing is necessary. Textile sensors could provide a huge amount of data, but many practical problems need to be overcome before real computing fibres will be on the market19,78. The problems include  

Apart from this, the textile material itself does not have any computing skills. Electronics are still necessary. However, they are available in miniaturised and even in a flexible form. They can be embedded in water-proof materials, but durability can be limited78. 

Within the suit, communication is currently realised by either optical fibres or conductive yarns. They both clearly have a textile nature and can be seamlessly built into the textile. Communication with the wearer is possible, for instance, by the following technologies  

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Finally, aU intelligent clothing can function in manual or automatic mode. In the case of manual fimctioning, the person who wears the clothing can act on these additional intelligent fimctions, and in the automatic mode the clothing can react autonomously to external environmental parameters (temperature, humidity, light). 

An expert system, named "GlovES+," has been written to provide reliable selections of chemical protective clothing for a wide variety of chemicals. The system conducts "intelligent searches" which emulate a human expert s decision path in evaluating a large database from an electronic publication by Forsberg. 

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