“…Furthermore, Dias and coworkers [443,444,446,630,632,633] have pioneered a different method where surface mount sensor chips were seamlessly integrated within the core of a textile yarn and this yarn was used to fabricate textile garments. In general, the connections between the sensors and external circuits were made using conductive wires/threads [323,443,444,446,630,632,633], Bluetooth [555,634], NFC [635]. The smart textile sensors were powered using lithium ion batteries [175], solar cells [175,187], flexible perovskite solar cells [636], triboelectric nanogenerators [404,637,638], pyroelectric nanogenerators [455], piezoelectric nanogenerators [637].…”