Electronics in Textiles and Clothing ─ Design, Products and Applications

This book covers the basic fundamentals of electronics and their applications in textiles and clothing product development. With increasing awareness about the e-textiles, researchers and scientists are finding ways to treat the textile materials integrating with electronics for communication/signal transferring applications. The book discusses wearable electronics, fabric production techniques for wearable electronics, design of circuits and integration into wearable electronic fabrics, product development using wearable electronic integrated fabrics, software development for wearable electronics, design and development of wearable electronic flexible solar tent, and garment integrated wearable electronic products.

Dr L Ashok Kumar Professor, in Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India and he has completed his graduate programme in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He did his post graduation in Electrical Machines as his major. He also completed his MBA with Specialization HRD. He has completed his PhD in Wearable Electronics. He has been a teaching faculty at PSG College of Technology, India since 2000. After the completion UG Degree he joined as Project Engineer in Serval Paper Boards Ltd., Coimbatore (now renamed as ITC unit, Kovai). He has been actively involved in numerous Government Sponsored Research Projects funded by DRDO, DSIR, CSIR, DST, L-RAMP, Villgro and AICTE. He has published many Technical papers in reputed National, International Journals and Conferences. He has visited many countries for presenting his research work and industry consultancy activities. He has been selected as the Visiting Professor in University of Arkansas, USA. He got trained in Germany for installing Grid connected and stands alone Solar PV systems. He is a registered Charted Engineer from IE (India). Dr L Ashok Kumar is a recipient of many National Awards from IE, ISTE, STA, NFED, etc. He is a member of various National and International Technical bodies like IE, ISTE, IETE, TSI, BMSI, ISSS, SESI, SSI, CSI & TAI. The author has received several awards namely, Young Engineer Award& Dr Triguna Charan Sen Prize, P.K.Das Memorial Best Faculty Award, Prof. K Arumugam National Award, Best Researcher Award and Outstanding Educator and Best Researcher Award. His research areas include, Wearable Electronics, Solar PV & Wind Energy Systems, Textile Control Engineering, Smart Grid, Smart Grid and Power Electronics & Drives.

Dr C Vigneswaran is working as Associate Professor in Department of Fashion Technology, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India since 2004. He has completed his M.Tech (Textile Technology) from PSG College of Technology in the area of Wearable Electronic field and PhD in Textile Technology from Anna University, Chennai, India in the area of Bioprocessing of Organic cotton textiles. He has received State First in Diploma in Man Made Fibre Technology during 1992-95; Best Student Award, awarded by Lee Educational Trust, U.K, during 79^th World Textile Conference organized by The Textile Institute, U.K. in the year 1998; ‘PRECITEX AWARD’ Best student in spinning by Precitex Rubber Industries, Mumbai during the year 1998-99; Dr Triguna Charan Sen Prize Award awarded by The Institution of Engineers (India), Kolkata for the Best Technical Research Paper in Textile Discipline for the year 2008-09 during the 23^rd Indian Engineering Congress, Warangal on 12 the December 2008; "Bharat Shiksha Ratan Award" Awarded by The Global Society for Health and Educational Trust, New Delhi for his excellence in the Academic field in Textiles on July 2010; and recently he received Young Engineer Award by The Institution of Engineers (India) in the Textile Engineering Discipline in the year 2012-13. He so far published 24 technical papers in National and International journals and 8 technical papers have been presented in the National and International level Technical Conferences. His areas of specialization are Fiber Science, Yarn Manufacturing, Garment Manufacturing Technology, Apparel Machinery and equipments and Apparel Costing. He is having a perfect blend of industrial and teaching experience over 12 years.