The Georgia Tech Wearable Motherboard

The vital signs would be transmitted to the triage unit by interfacing the sensate liner with a personal status monitor developed by the US Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA). 

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a structured process that uses a visual language and a set of inter-linked engineering and management charts to 

in the first step of the conceptual design process, the broad performance requirements were translated into a larger set of clearly defined functions along with the associated factors (Fig. 13.1). 

This structured and analytical process eventually led to the design of the structure. The Wearable Motherboard consists of the following building blocks or modules that are totally integrated to create a garment (with intelligence) that feels and wears like any typical undershirt The modules are  

The elegance of this design lies in the fact that these building blocks (like LEGO blocks) can be put together in any desired combination to produce structures to meet specific end-use requirements. For example, in creating a 

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