Smart garment and method for detection of body kinematics and physical state

A body garment for detecting body kinematics comprising:

• a plurality of sensors distributed throughout the garment, each sensor being configured to sense body state information from a local surface area of a body part covered by the garment;
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• a plurality of sensor nodes in proximity to the plurality of sensors respectively, each sensor node including a processor and configured to receive sensing body state information from at least one of the plurality of sensors;
• wherein each processor is configured to receive body state information locally from one or more sensors in proximity to said each processor;
• to utilize the information to determine a local surface shape of the surface of a portion of the body part covered by said one or more sensors;
• and to exchange local surface shape information with neighboring sensor nodes, and
• wherein at least one processor of at least one sensor node utilizes the local surface shape information received from the sensor nodes to generate one overall model of a surface shape of the entire surface of the body part covered by the garment.