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- Smart material have received a lot of attention over the years. One of those smart materials is a self sensing composites, which detects internal damage with sensors embedded in them. This structural health monitoring based on embedded sensors could potentially reduce the cost of maintenance in multiple sectors such as aeronautic and windmills. This works aims to study the feasibility of embedding a sensor in carbon fiber composites and predicting which sensor could survive the manufacturing process of the composite. We start by explaining the nature of carbon fiber and its composite form. the challenge that the composite manufacturing poses to the sensor are then explained. Different type of strain gauge are then analysed for their suitability as embedded sensor. A literature review is done to show what works have been done up until now in embedding sensor in composites. Then models and numerical analysis are presented to obtain an estimation of the residual stress of the sensor. This is then compared to two sensors embedded in pure resins, and the challenges associated with the manufacturing step of composite and sensor deployment.