Some people define 2013 as the first year of wearable devices, and some define 2014 as the first year of wearable devices. The definition of the year may not be conclusive, but the popularity of the wearable concept is an indisputable fact, even if the market is slow, according to Gartner. The latest report predicts that global health wearables will ship about 70 million units in 2014 and will fall to about 68.1 million units in 2015. However, with a series of lower costs, 2016 health wearables Will pick up again. Among them, smart clothes are regarded as “the most promising potential†for healthy wearables. It will jump from nearly freezing in 2013 and 2014 to the estimated 26 million in 2016, which will become 5 categories. The largest category of shipments.
According to the description of smart clothes by the University of Manchester, Paul Beatty, smart clothes mainly contain three types of sensors: electrocardiogram, electromyography biosensor, motion sensor, temperature sensor, which are smart clothes "smart" fundamental. In fact, it is easy to see that these types of sensors are not much different from other mainstream wearable devices.
The entire system of smart clothes is similar to other functional wearable systems and is divided into three main parts:
1, intelligent electronic processing, mainly to perform data acquisition and pre-processing, as well as Bluetooth communication, accelerometer measurement of motion speed, GPS positioning, etc.;
2. A switching hub for processing digital signals and transmitting them to a remote computer via a network;
3. Finally, the remote computer analyzes and processes the data, generates a report and presents it to the user.
Where does the market influence come from?
Why does Gartner believe that the shipment of smart clothes will grow rapidly, surpassing other types of wearables in two years? The Arterial Network Internet Medical Research Institute gave an analysis of this problem:
1. Wearing a piece of clothing appears to have no additional burden compared to many wearables as an add-on accessory. Take the smart bracelet, you have to add an object to your wrist to get "smart". This wear becomes a burden and may affect your original wearing habits. But smart clothes are not, it is entirely possible to do so without adding any wear and tear.
2. As far as the clothing industry or sportswear industry is concerned, it originally had a large user base. It's easy to extend a segment from an existing clothing brand or sports brand. A ready-made loyal user base, ready-made brand influence, and more importantly, off-the-shelf distribution channels. Compared with those hardware manufacturers who have built new ones from scratch, the penetration of communication is much greater. In fact, Arterial Network believes that the main shipments will come from products with relatively conservative functions introduced by mainstream clothing brands, such as smart sports bras that can monitor heart rate.
3, there are ready-made benchmarks that can be imitated. Although the time for smart clothes to appear is not long, in fact, smart shoes have been around for several years, this is the Nike+ series of sports shoes. Copying its success model into the field of sportswear should be no problem. Compared with other diehards in other traditional industries, the apparel industry has always been in a high-competition and high-spirited state. Atheros believes that innovation is always difficult in a strong brand in this field. Once the prospects are recognized, it will gain a high speed.
4, in terms of the most intuitive features, the bracelet is also good for the watch, the contact surface with the body is actually very limited, and the part that the clothes can cover can be much larger. This also means that the sensor touch points are increased, and the measured physical volume data can be collected more widely.
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