Towards the Development of a Smart Wearable Device Based on Electrically Conductive Yarns

Abstract

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.