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1. WEARABLE ELECTRONICS
FLEXI-WEARABLES
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•INTRODUCTION
•WEARABLE-ELECTRONICS
•FLEXIBLE-ELECTRONICS
•FLEXI-WEARABLES
•PROS & CONS
•FUTURE
•CONCLUSION

3.  The term wearables, wearable technology and
wearable devices all refer to electronic technologies
or sensors and computing devices that are worn
close to the body, on the body or even in the
body…
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Wearables , furthering the reach of electronics into our lives…….

5. WEARABLES…
 Wearables make technology pervasive by
interweaving it into daily life.
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oWearable tech begins to close the separation gap
As we make the tech much more integrated with us
rather than apart from us
oWhile some people wear electronics to help them
perceive their surroundings more deeply, others
wear these to keep track of calories,distance
walked, heart-condition and other parameters…

6.  Its important to know that the
wearables are not new…Like all
tech, it itself has been on a
journey.And the road has been
long to even get here!
 Wearables are new however to
the consumer space.
 And just like when phones
became cameras and then
became smart….There will be a
transition period. But this
transition period seems to be
getting faster in the world of
today….
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World’s first legally recognised Cyborg!!!
(Neil Harbisson)
And we are definitely on a course headed for
dermals, ingestables and implants..
Artificial Human-skin..By
Google for testing cancer-
detection devices..

9. “ELECTRONICS ARE RIGID AND BOXY WHILE
HUMANS ARE SOFT AND CURVY”
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 Wearables are intensely personal.
 This means that the designer and the person building the product
have to care about how the product looks and whether it matches
the identity of the user, aswellas what kind of sizes the product
comes in.
 We need circuits that can follow the form and elasticity of its
user,yet keep functioning optimally.Because living organisms are
intrinsically flexible and malleable.
 But conventional electronic board technology puts a limitation on
wearable device design,since it is stiff and not flexible enough to
bend or even fold…

10.  MC10 ,MulTek understood this challenge
put forward by wearables.
 And MC10 came up with extremely
stretchable electronics, which is built
around the idea of using two isolated
electronic components attached to an
elastic-substrate material,and an electrical
interconnection is laid, which maintains
electrical characteristics even while the
substrate is stretched…
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oMultek has expertise in manufacturing flexible PCBs.

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Stretchable circuit = (compact) rigid/flex functional islands
with stretchable interconnects

12.  A technology for
assembling electronic circuits by
mounting electronic devices on
flexible plastic substrates
 Also known as flex circuits
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13.  Just as the IC replaced discrete circuit
board electronics, flexible electronics
will almost inevitably , by virtue of the
ever demanding end-user, supersede
solid-state Ics…
 Flexible electronics could transform
the way we make and use electronic
devices.
 It opens the door to foldaway
smartphone displays, solarcells on a
roll of plastic, etc…
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14.  Ever evolving advances in thin-film materials and devices
have fuelled many of the developments in the field of flexible
electronics..
 The innovative gadgets that we are presently experiencing are
made possible by flex circuits in the industry
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 Due to the fact that these devices are more shock-resistant,
cost-effective to manufacture and can be flexed or bended,
they have the capability of being integrated into portable
devices, clothing and packaging materials..
 The main end uses for flex ckts include eletronic displays,
photovoltaics,sensors, lighting and logic/memory applications
etc..

15. HOW FLEXIBLE-ELECTRONICS IS
PROMOTING WEARABLES?
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 In the last one year or so, the scenario of flexible
electronics has rapidly changed.
 Flexible electronics is in vogue for two reasons:
i)first, it promises an entirely new design tool.
ii)second, it cost less to make.

16.  The technologies currently available
commercially include flexible thin-film
transistors and logic circuits, flexible organic
LEDs(OLED) based displays,flexible memories
and batteries,aswellas flexible photovoltaics
and sensors.
 Additionally, many types of flexible and
transparent conductors are also available
commercially, ranging from indium-tin-
oxide(ITO) to nanotubes and nanowires.
 All these materials and technologies are mature
,and the devices based on these are readily
available in the market, which could be further
integrated into more complex systems that can
enable a wide range of applications…
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17.  Flexibility is a necessity for successful
integration of electronics into biological
systems.
 Hence,Flexible electronics has attracted
a lot of attention for its enormous
potential in many important
applications, such as wearable health-
monitoring devices and medical
implants..
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18.  TRANSFORMING HEALTHCARE
 WAR WITH WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY
 WEARABLE -PATCHES
 SMART CYCLING WITH WEARABLES
 ASSISTIVE WEARABLES FOR LEARNING
 FASHION/TEXTILE INDUSTRY
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DELIVERING
GOOD DESIGN
FOR
WEARABLES
COLLECT ONLY
THE DATA THAT
YOU REALLY
NEED .
TECHNOLOGY
TO SAFEGUARD
AGAINST
IRREPARABLE
DAMAGE.
SELECT THE
MATERIAL
CAREFULLY
USE MCU’S WITH
MULTIPLE LOW-
POWER NODES .
OPTIMISE THE
CODE.
DATA
PROCESSING
NEEDS TO BE
MOVED TO THE
GATEWAY.
REDUCE NO. OF
SENSORS .
DESIGN
DISPLAYS WITH
AMBIENT LIGHT.

22. PROS & CONS
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BENEFITS
 Good portability
 Fashionable
 Always on for performing the intended
function
 Hands-free
 Quick accessibility
PITFALLS
 Privacy concerns
 Data insecurity
 Cost

23. FUTURE ASPECTS..
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 The decreasing cost of processing power and other components is
encouraging widespread adoption and availability
 3D printers are facilitating quick prototyping
 And crowd funding platforms are providing new ways to get funds.
 And hence ,wearable technology is on the rise in personal and
business use..

24.  Global sales is expected to reach almost 250 million units by
2018
 Though 2015 growth is expected to be driven by passive
wearbles, in 2016-17, passive wearable products will likely
become increasingly complex and eventually shift to
autonomous wearable products.
 As wearable electronics become mainstream within the period
2015-17, prices are expected to decline in both passive and
autonomous wearables
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25. WEARABLE ELECTRONICS
- WEAR YOUR FUTURE
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•Wearable computers or body-borne computers are
especially useful for applications that demands advanced
computational support, that is , more than hardware-coded
logic.
•These seamlessly merge with our daily lives .
•Rather the wearable devices act more as an extension of
our mind and body and sometimes also in a way like an
artificial body part…

26. 26Its wearables time to shine!!!!!!!!!!
•The market potential for wearable
computing stems from its diversity-from
watches,fitness trackers to sensor-filled
clothes ,augmented reality glasses to
implantables…
•As per Credit Suisse, a leading financial
services company, the market for
wearable technology will rise tenfold to as
high as 50 billion US dollars by 2016 or
2018 !
•The next big revolution in IT will not
reside in your pocket or on your office
table; ….you’ll be wearing it !

27.  www.efymag.com
 IEEE journals
 www.ehow.com
 technologyonthemove.blogspot.in
 www.marketsandmarkets.com/wearble-electronics-market-983.html
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wearable_computer
 www.wearble-technologies.com
 electronicdesign.com/power/iot-devices-and-wearables-push-
development-thin-flexible-batteries
 http://www.triplepundit.com/2015/06/future-wearable-tech/
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