Wearable Technology Integrated Smart Textiles in Sports and Allied Fields-A Review

Abstract

Smart fabrics belong to that category of textiles which have been developed with new technologies to provide added values to the wearer. Smart clothing technology has become an integral part of the modern day professional sports. Wearable technology keeps monitoring the load on day to day basis of the players to ensure that they maintain injury-free and peak conditions for the competition. Biometric sensors can provide the metrics for athletes to become integral part of the tools moving forward. Healthier employees mean lower health care costs and for that new apps and devices are for the games like tennis, golf and swimming. A lot of sportsmen and women look for advantage over their combatant wearing appropriate high-tech textiles. The textile integration of wearable computing components, it has been possible for innovative and pervasive monitoring in the sports arena.