Wireless enabled clothing: New modular technologies and overall supply chain impact

TL;DR

This paper explores the development of wireless-enabled clothing using modular, customizable architectures that integrate advanced electronics, textiles, and renewable power, analyzing supply chain impacts and cost benefits.

Contribution

It introduces a novel modular architecture for wireless-enabled clothing and examines its implications for supply chains, customization, and cost efficiency.

Findings

Modular wireless clothing offers significant personalization opportunities.

The new architecture maintains costs comparable to mobile terminals.

Supply chain and distribution channels are impacted by this technology.

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the realization of wireless enabled clothing, employing recent new technologies in electronics, textile, and renewable power. This new wireless enabled clothing architecture is modular and distributed,allowing for customization in functionality and clothing designs. Are studied the implications for supply chains,distribution channels, and cost benefits. Modular wireless enabled clothing offers significant personalization opportunities at costs comparable with mobile terminals.