Smart Textiles for Soldier of the Future

Abstract

The textile-based materials, equipped with nanotechnology and electronics, have a major role in the development of high-tech milltary uniforms and materials. Active intelligent textile systems, integrated to electronics, have the capacity of improving the combat soldiers performance by sensing, adopting themselves and responding to a situational combat need allowing the combat soldiers to continue their mission. Meantime, smart technologies aim to help soldiers do everyth~ng they need to do with a less number of equipment and a lighter load. In this study, recent developments on smart garments, especially designed for military usage owing to their electronic functions, and intelligent textlle-based materials that can be used in battlefield, are introduced.

Design Considerations for Unconventional Electrochemical Energy Storage Architectures

“…[ 96,[98][99][100] While up to now the primary function of a battery was basically the energy storage and release on demand, the emerging direction of smart power sources explores as well the new functionalities that could be integrated into or with a battery to create a multifunctional power source, such as structural batteries. Simplifying or re-designing the battery manufacturing and assembly protocols that enables seamless battery integration into arbitrary confi gurations and shape is also a part of this progress.…”

“…[ 243 ] Another recent technological trend is the integration of electronic devices into fabrics to achieve smart clot hing. [ 19,37,96,100,[244][245][246][247][248] To realize this and to achieve seamless integration we would need electronics devices and their power units to possess mechanical, structural and aesthetic properties similar to cloth ( Figure 9 A). The human body and the surrounding environment comprise many energy sources, such as sunlight, body heat, and movements, or ambient radio frequencies.…”

Polygon Shaped 3G Mobile Band Antennas for High Tech Military Uniforms

“…Smart Textiles help combat soldiers to take critical decisions in the battlefield with lighter electronic wearable devices [1]. The wearable antenna is one of the essential components of the smart textiles or high tech military uniforms.…”

Estimation of physiological body parameters from smart garment data

“…There have been several advancements in wearable smart garment technology in the recent years [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. They are mostly used for health monitoring [1,[3][4][5][6], in the sports field [8] and also in the military domain [9].…”

“…They are mostly used for health monitoring [1,[3][4][5][6], in the sports field [8] and also in the military domain [9]. The garments have embedded sensor which records some key body parameters.…”