Electronics textile platforms are conceived as the implementation into textile of added functions like sensing, actuation, computing and power managing with the whole being part of an interactive communication network. Systems based on these platforms combine the knowledge of advances in fields as fiber and polymer research, material processing, microelectronics, signals processing, nanotechnologies and telecommunication.
Textile is the common platform where smart materials in form of fibers are integrated, where the properties of the material can be tuned through the combination of chemical surfaces processes and the implementation of multi-laminated and differentiated structures, where the exploitation of textile manufacturing potentiality allows the use of redundant sensors configurations and the combination of mechanical and electrochemical properties to create new multifunctional patterns. The integration into clothes of several kinds of biosensors for health monitoring provide daily physiological parameters through a continuous, personalized, and self-made detection of vital signs or the tracking of posture and gestures of a subject. These systems comprise innovative fabric sensors for ECG, respiration, temperature, impedance, SpO2 measure and sweet analysis. E textile platforms can be used unobtrusively into the routinely daily activity as well as to perform remote monitoring of persons in different circumstances and situations: during controlled exercises and diagnostic procedures, during the usual daily life, during sleep or even to monitor behavioral indexes and mood disorders. Treatment of stress may include also training in cognitive-behavioral skills. Moreover, physiological signs and behavioral monitoring based on a multivariable approach leads to an enhanced sensitivity and specificity of these systems for the prediction of critical events.