Inductive Textile Sensing for Movement Monitoring

Abstract

Textile-based wearable technologies have significant potential for monitoring movements in fitness and health applications. Inductive sensing is a promising modality due to the ease of sensors fabrication and the quality of sensors' response. This letter initially focused on designing individual textile inductive sensors. Then, selected parameters were used to create a textile-based garment with inductive sensors capable of monitoring back movements in three directions. This letter successfully demonstrated that the developed garment can monitor back movements in three directions.