Wearable Electro-Textiles for Battlefield Awareness

摘要

This summary describes efforts to develop wearable electronic textiles and connectors to support body worn networking, communications, and battlefield awareness for future service members of the U.S. Army. Products developed include textile-based Universal Serial Bus (USB) and radiating antenna, body conformal spiral bus, fastex connector, and universal snap fastener. All products have been tested and successfully demonstrated in a laboratory setting.