A dedicated wearable device integrated in textiles

Abstract

The wearable devices have a big role in increasing the quality of life that should take into account also the persons withdisabilities. Our research focuses on a certain category of persons with disabilities, namely those with visual impair-ments. Thus, once again the technological progress must be capitalized in favour of the less fortunate. We propose anoriginal device easy to use and integrate into any textile product. The device contains a microcontroller, sensors andactuators. The sensors collect information from the outside world and provide a “picture” of it by means of tactile andacoustic actuators. The research opens the possibility of designing of fabrics using nanotechnology to have sensors andactuators directly into the fabric