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A single-fibre computer enables textile networks and distributed inference
A textile fibre computer combining sensing, memory, processing and communication in a 5-g mass has been developed, enabling distributed computation on the human body through garments.
This programmable fibre, which incorporates a 32-bit floating-point microcontroller, independently performs edge computing tasks even when braided, woven, knitted or seam-sewn into garments. To demonstrate its utility, we show that garments equipped with four fibre computers, one per limb, operating individually trained neural networks achieve, on average, 67% accuracy in classifying physical activity. An example of the process for extracting the confidence level weights that were pre-encoded on the individual fibres for performing the federated inference algorithm with anatomical behavioural awareness (Supplementary Note 11).
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