Textile materials requirements for sensors, actuators, batteries and wearable devices

Combination of fabrics and sensing properties lead to the creation of what we call smart fabric sensors. They are sensitive to multiple physical and chemical stimuli such as changes in temperature, pressure, force, and electrical current, etc. Sensing elements can be incorporated into fabrics at any level depending on the structural fabric element being modified or sensitised. These smart fabric sensors can be considered as part of the more general term of smart fabric transducers [1].
We can divide the smart fabric transducers into three main categories which are sensors, actuators and batteries.
All these devices or components of a device that are made to some degree from textiles could find action in a variety of fields such as human health monitoring, sports, military, everyday life, food habits.