The smart floor: a mechanism for natural user identification and tracking
CHI '00 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Engineering Self-Organising Systems
Engineering Self-Organising Systems
E-broidery: design and fabrication of textile-based computing
IBM Systems Journal
The magic carpet: physical sensing for immersive environments
CHI EA '97 CHI '97 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Active capacitive sensing: exploring a new wearable sensing modality for activity recognition
Pervasive'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Pervasive Computing
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Textiles are omnipresent in everyday life. Their combination with microelectronics will lead to completely new applications, thus achieving elements of ambient intelligence. The integration of sensor or actuator networks, using fabrics with conductive fibres as a textile motherboard enable the fabrication of large active areas. In this paper we propose a “smart textile” based on a wired peer-to-peer network of simple information processing elements with integrated sensors or actuators. A self-organizing and fault-tolerant architecture is accomplished which detects the physical shape of the network. Routing paths are formed for data transmission, automatically circumventing defective or missing areas. The network architecture allows the smart textiles to be produced by reel-to-reel processes, cut into arbitrary shapes subsequently and implemented in systems at low installation costs. The possible applications are manifold, ranging from alarm systems to intelligent guidance systems, passenger recognition in car seats, air conditioning control in interior lining and smart wallpaper with software-defined light switches.