The System incorporates the Wearable Motherboard™
Smart Shirt (the “Smart Shirt” or “garment”), a novel electrooptical
garment funded by the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) and developed at the Georgia
Institute of Technology, and an advanced communications
and data management infrastructure. Together, this integrated
solution provides an extremely versatile network for
sensing, monitoring, and information processing devices
that can enable a wide range of products.
The Smart Shirt permits the seamless acquisition and
disposition of sensory and environmental data to and from a
wearer; and the communications and data management
infrastructure permits the transmission of this data over
wired and wireless networks. The Smart Shirt’s
Interconnection Technology provides a flexible “bus” structure
that allows a potentially enormous array of sensors,
whether physical, environmental, or biological, as well as
information processing devices, to be mounted or embedded
at any location. These flexible capabilities permit data to be
collected from the wearer in an unobtrusive fashion and
routed to and from the communications and data management
network. By providing hands-free bi-directional data
transmission, data processing systems, and optimized wireless
communications using an expedient array of protocols,
Sensatex offers a total solution that is virtually transparent,
but ubiquitously available to the end user. 206