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Foreword
The textile industry has been undergoing a structural crisis for more than
30 years and has some difficulties in finding a level of suitable growth.
The sector’s potential of growth is important because of the emergence
of new outlets thanks to smart textiles and the increasing trend of
Quantified Self.
Raising the subject of smart textiles does not imply to limit oneself only to
the textile industry. Quite the opposite, these new clothes are at the
intersection of multiple disciplines such as electronics, chemistry or
computing. So, technological advances are the foundations of these new
offers even if they are still facing numerous problems of acceptability and
technical stakes connected with their lack of maturity.
Smart textiles approach various markets and target specific consumers
today.
Three major applications caught our attention: Sport, Health and
Protection. We also present the fashion tech.
This study presents an overview of the technological advances, the socio-
economic research, as well as a mapping of Smart textiles’ actors across
the world.
It also presents a forecast of the market from 2018 to 2023.
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SMART TEXTILES: DEFINITION
TECHNOLOGIES
APPLICATIONS
DRIVERS & CHALLENGES OF THE MARKET
Drivers 101
Challenges 110 CONSUMER INSIGHT
Consumers’ expectations 119
Consumers’ brakes 126
LEGAL ISSUES INVOLVED
MARKET FORECAST MAPPING OF
COMPANIES & ORGANIZATIONS
Sports application 49
Medical application 61
Protection application 80
Fashion Tech 96
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
European Projects 333
North American Projects 340
Asian Projects 345 SOURCES
LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF TABLES COMPANIES & ORGANIZATIONS MENTIONED
Table of contents
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Figure 1: Components in smart textiles
Figure 2: Process of reaction to the environment of smart textiles
Figure 3: The price of a gym membership vs the price of a smart textile
Figure 4: Reasons to quantify yourself (In %)
Figure 5: People who wish to acquire a smart textile for a sports use (In %)
Figure 6: Progressive abandonment of connected bracelets
Figure 7: Quantified Self enthusiasts (in %)
Figure 8 : The use of smart textiles in the healthcare sector
Figure 9: What consumers think of the benefit of smart textiles for healthcare
Figure 10: Portion of people who consider that smart textiles are a source of help to manage their
health
Figure 11: The telemedicine market (in billion $)
Figure 12: Growth of the number of health mobile applications (in thousands)
Figure 13: Portion of the world’s population over 60 in 2050(%)
Figure 14: Risk of a chronic pathology according to one‘s age
Figure 15: Smart textile for home support
Figure 16: Reassuring factors as to the confidentiality of data (%)
Figure 17: Medical data and health data
Figure 18: Marketing authorization processes
Figure 19: Proposition for the declaration of conformity of connected health devices
Figure 20: The condition for the refund of medical smart textiles
Figure 21: Functioning of Bioserenity’s smart t-shirt and hat
Figure 22: Functioning of a smart textile used for protection purposes
Figure 23: The utility of smart textiles for protection
Figure 24: Components and information transmitted by the smartPRO suit
Figure 25: Goals of the Fashion Tech
Figure 26: The sociodemographic driver
Figure 27: Population structure by major age groups, EU-28, 2016-80
Figure 28: Risks of having a chronic disease according to one’s age
Figure 29: The technologic driver
Figure 30: The economic driver
Figure 31: The sectorial driver
Figure 32: Division of companies on the smart textiles market according to their size (%)
Figure 33: Development costs and finished products sales price
Figure 34: Regulatory challenges
Figure 35: Technical challenge
Figure 36: Value chain of smart textiles
Figure 37: Economic challenge
Figure 38: Part of people whom heard about Smart Textiles
Figure 39: Consumer’s expectations
Figure 40: Consumer’s brakes
Figure 41: Consumer’s opinion about the use of Smart Textile for health
List of figures
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Figure 42: Consumer’s opinion about the use of Smart Textile for sport
Figure 43: Consumer’s practice of sports
Figure 44: Part of consumers owning a connected device
Figure 45: The use of connected devices
Figure 46: Part of consumer practicing the Quantified Self
Figure 47: Part of consumer doing sports among the one who quantified themselves
Figure 48: Buying intentions among people practicing sports often and occasionally
Figure 49: Consumer’s opinion about the use of Smart Textile for health
Figure 50: Consumer’s opinion about the use of Smart Textiles for protection
Figure 51: Consumer’s opinion about the professional use of Smart Textiles in sports
Figure 52: Impacts on health mentioned by consumers
Figure 53: The data brake 3 years ago and in 2017
Figure 54: Consumer’s opinion about the use of Smart Textile for sport
Figure 55: Interests in Smart Textiles
Figure 56: Buying intentions
Figure 57: Portion of people willing or not to share their data
Figure 58: Pairing up methods of protection for smart textiles
Figure 59: Global market of smart textiles in 2018
Figure 60: Sector ranking of the smart textiles market in 2018
Figure 61: Global market of smart textiles (in million USD)
Figure 62: Global market of smart textiles by application (in million USD)
Figure 63: Market share of the applications on the global market of smart textiles (in %)
Figure 64: Global market of protective smart textiles (in million USD)
Figure 65: The global market of sports smart textiles (in million USD)
Figure 66: Global market of medical smart textiles (in million USD)
Figure 67: Global market of the textile industry (in million USD)
Figure 68: Growth trajectories of the smart textiles market and the
textile industry (In %)
Figure 69: Growth of the share of smart textiles in the textile industry
Figure 70: Size distribution of firms in the smart textile sector
Figure 71: Distribution of companies in the world
Table 1: Top Wearable Devices by Product, Volume, Market Share, and CAGR
Table 2: Sensitive data
Table 3: Global market of smart textiles (in million USD)
Table 4: Market shares of the applications on the global market of smart textiles
Table 5: Global market of protective smart textiles (in million USD)
Table 6: The global market of sports smart textiles (in million USD)
Table 7: Global market of medical smart textiles (in million USD)
Table 8: Global market of the textile industry (in million USD)
Table 9: Growth rates of the textile industry and of the market of smart
textiles
Table 10: Share of smart textiles in the textile industry
List of tables
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3M Adidas (Textronics) A-Gas Electronic Materials AiQ Smart Clothing Alexium Alphabet Ambiotex AMSilk ANOUK WIPPRECHT FASHIONTECH Appaparel Apple Applied Materials Ardeje Arsenal Medical Asiatic Fiber Corporation @-Health ATHOS BAE SYSTEMS BASF BeBop Sensors Bertin Aubert Industries Biodevices BioSerenity BodyCAP BodyPlus Bodysens Bonbouton Brochier Technologies Calzados Pitillos S.A. Cambridge Consultants Carel’s MySense Carré Technologies Inc. Chromat Clara Swiss Tech Clim8 Clothing+ Corderie Meyer Sansboeuf CuteCircuit Diffus Design Digitsole Directa Plus Doublet Dow Chemical Dracula Technologies DRÄGER Ducere Technologies DuPont Elmarco
EMO SNC
Eolane Group
ERAM
Eurecat
Exo2
E-wear solutions
Filspec
Flex
Footballs & Heartbeats
Forster Rohner Textile Innovations
Freudenberg
GEDS Teknoloji Hiz. Ve Dan Ltd Sti
Globe Turnout Gear
GRAPHENE PRODUCTION
H2C brands LLC
HealthWatch Ltd
Heddoko
Holding Textile Hermès
HT Concept
Imprint Energy
Infineon
Infi-Tex
Infoscitex
Intel Corporation
Intelligent Textile Limited
Interactive Wear
International Fashion Machines
Isorg
ITP GMBH
Jabil
Jasnarok
Jenax
Kolon Glotech
Komodo Technologies
LEITAT
Levi Strauss
Liebaert
LifeBEAM
Life Sense Group
Like A Glove
Medical Design Solution
Microsoft
Midlinghtsun
MOULINAGE DU SOLIER
Muebleconfort
Myant & Co
Myzone
Nanowear
Nike
Noble Biomaterials
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Nuada
Ohmatex
OMSignal
Osmotex
OtherLab
Outlast Technologies
Paneratech
Percko
Phillips
Pireta
Plasmachem Produktions- und Handel GMBH
Plug & Wear
Power Textile Limited
Primo1D
Printed Electronics Ltd
Puls@care
Rest Devices
SALOMON SAS
Samsung
Sarvint Technologies
Schoeller
SCIENCE ET SURFACE
SEFAR HOLDING AG
Sensing Tex
Sensoree
Sensoria
Shiftwear
Silic Shirts
Siren Care
Smartex
Sofileta
Solvay
Spinali Design
Stretchsense
Tecnalia
TE-Connectivity
Teijin
Teslasuit
Texas Instruments
Texinov
Texisense
TEXTILES DE LA DUNIERE
The Unseen
Thermal Tech
THERM-IC
TIBTECH innovations
Toray Industries
Toyobo
Twinery
Under Armour
Visijax
Vitali Wear
Wearable Life Science (ANTELOPE CLUB)
Wearable Media
Wearable X
XO International
Zoll
ZSK Stickmaschinen
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Asociacion para la promocion, investigacion,
desarrollo e innovacion tecnologica de la industria
del calzado y conexas de la rioja
Binghamton University BLUMINE SRL CEA LETI
Center for optics, photonics and laser
Centexbel
CETI
CETEMMSA
CITEVE (Portugal)
CLUTEX
Coventry University
CNIL
CNOM
CSEM
CSMO Textile
Darpa
Dartmouth College DIGITAL SPACES LIVING LAB OOD Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Empa
Ensait
EPFL
Eurocarers
FDA
FTC
Groupe CTT
Harvard University
Heritage Bank
IFTH
Imec
IMP Innovation Service Network Podjetnisko in Poslovno Svetovanje doo INRS
Instituto Italiano di technologia Politecnico di Torino
Instituto tecnologico de Aragon
ISPB International Project Management, Plating and Materials Jess Jur, NC State School of Textiles Kaist
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Leitat
Luksja Sp. Z o.o.
Massachussetts Institute of Technology
National Center for sensors research
National Research & Development Institute
for Textiles and Leather
National Science Foundation
Next Technology Tecnotessile
Nottingham Trent University
Pratt Institute
Queen Mary University Of London Saratov University
Saxony Institute Textile Research (Germany)
School of Design
Stanford University
Textile Center of Excellence (Regno Unito)
Textile Research Institute of Spain
Textile Research Institute of Thuringia-
Vogtland
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 Universitat Der KUNSTE BERLIN University of California
Université Catholique de Louvain
University of Central Florida
University For The Creative Arts University of Dresden
University of Eindhoven
University of Massachussetts
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rhode Island
University of South Carolina
University of Washington
Univerza v Mariboru
Uniwersytet Przyrodniczo
VTT
Wearable Computing Laboratory (Australia)
WE CONNECT DATA
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SMART TEXTILES DEFINITION
Textiles are a part of our
daily life. Their first
functions were to protect
Man against bad
weather, before
aesthetics came to play
an important role in
dressing. Now, textiles
are liked for their
technical performances.
They also become
smarter and interactive.
Smart textiles, also called E-
Textile or even Smart Fabric
and Interactive Textile (SFIT),
are now immerging in our
daily lives. In 2004, the
European Committee for
Standardization (CEN)
integrated in its classification
a reference for smart textiles
(Bost and Crosetto, 2014).
Smart textiles are textiles
that spread the
functionalities and utility
of regular fabrics. Their
structure enables them to
receive and react to
different environmental
stimuli (thermal, chemical,
electrical stimuli…) in a
predictable and useful
way. Smart textiles have 3
functionalities: sensitivity,
reactivity and adaptability
(Ref 1).
3 categories of smart textiles (ref 2) exist,
referencing to those 3 functionalities:
Passive
smart
textiles
Active
smart
textiles
Very
smart
textiles
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TECHNOLOGIES Numerous technologies are
necessary for the manufacturing of
smart textiles.
The different fibers are an essential part, from fiber optic, the most mature, to technologies
currently being developed in order to make fibers conductive.
Different materials are also used: form memory materials, chromic materials and phase
changing materials.
Regular manufacturing technologies will not be replaced in the medium term. They will be
complementary to new manufacturing technologies currently being developed. Some of the
latter, like E-thread and Diablo are promising and will enable an easier integration in the textile
of the different active elements such as the pressure or electrochemical sensors or
communication devices such as antennas.
Finally, the development and the integration of technologies related to the supply of power
will be essential for the rise of smart textiles. Those technologies represent a real technical
challenge because they lack maturity and still require proofs of more accomplished concepts.
Fibers Inks Active
materials
Classical
productions
New
productions
Pressure
sensors
Electrochemical
sensors
Power
supply
Memory Communication
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Companies like Creative Materials Incorporated, DuPont, Methode Electronics Incorporated,
Motson, Think and tinker limited make and sell conductive inks.
Those inks have to be resistant to oxidization, with a good adhesion as well as an appropriated
viscosity and a low accumulation of particles. They are generally applied by engraving,
flexography or silk-screen printing.
Engraving uses solid metals. This method mobilizes a lot of machines for it needs several
printing rollers and its implementation can prove to be rather expensive.
Conductive inks
Conductive inks have to contain
a highly conductive metal
precursor
By adding metal such as
carbon, copper, silver,
nickel or gold to a regular
ink, it becomes conductive
and can be printed on
different substrates such as
paper, plastic or textiles.
TRL9
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Flexography also calls for the use of rollers but is still less expensive than engraving. Yet, the
cost of the ink is higher because of the depth of the forms. Moreover, flexography is slower
and offers less complexity of design than engraving.
Silk-screen printing is appropriated for electric and electronic manufacturing thanks to the
capacity to produce forms in thick coats. Researchers from the University of Southampton
developed a network of screen printed electrodes associated with conductive tracks for a
medical application.
New processes, like digital printing, seem promising for conductive inks. This technique
eliminates intermediate stages because the design that has to be created is directly sent to
the printer, which offers a quality printing and good productivity. Researchers of the Instituto
Italiano di technologia Politecnico di Torino developed a sensor for inkjet printer made of
silver nanoparticles on a flexible polyamide patch.
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Recently, a research group of Professor Takao Someyaof the University of Tokyo managed
to create a high electric conductivity ink that requires only a single printing on textile.
Composed of sliver flakes, organic solvent, fluororubber and fluorinated surfactants, it stays
flexible (it can stretch up to 3 times its size) and ultra-conductive. The simplicity of the process,
the flexibility of the material and its high conductivity enable its use in numerous applications
(Ref 13).
Good productiveness
Good adhesion
Resistance
High cost of some
processes
Rigidity
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Sports Applications
The use of smart textiles applied to fitness and sports saw the highest growth of the sector of
smart textiles.
The success of smart textiles in the field of sports should allow for their global generalization
and act as a springboard for the penetration of other markets. The sports sector thus still
constitutes a « test bench » for these new textiles in a public use.
There are only few products out on the market. The Nadi X pants by Wearable X are yoga pants
with an integrated technology that guides the wearer in achieving perfect posture in yoga. The
t-shirt made by Carré Technologie or the one made by Cityzen Sciences show the advantages
of these new textiles.
For sports people, smart textiles could provide:
- Thermal comfort (thermal isolation, evacuation of the sweat…);
- Increased performances;
- A precise measure of physiological parameters (ECG…);
- Adapted trainings according to the user’s profile.
Smart wearables are expected to growth more and more quickly in the years to come.
Another data that suggests a
strong growth of the sector is
that in 2016, 102 million smart
garments were sold in the world
and in 2020, the number of units
sold is expecting to reach 213.6
million (Ref 45).
SPORTS APPLICATIONS
Unit shipments from 2017 to 2021 (in millions) (Ref 44)
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MEDICAL APPLICATION
Despite a lower level of development, the medical application of smart textile will
grow rapidly. and, in 2023, the medical application will represent 60.03% of market
shares.
If it is difficult to develop this application, it is largely because of the complexity of
the healthcare industry itself for each product has to go through lengthy and
expensive authorization processes in order to be put on the market. Moreover, the
impact of the exchange of data raises an ethical problem because medical data are
the most sensible kind of data.
Respiratory
Monitoring Heart rate
Monitoring
Muscular
Monitoring
Figure 8 : The use of smart textiles in the healthcare sector
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In 2016, there were 7.1 million remotely monitored patients. This number is expected to reach 50.2 million by 2021. (Ref 53) The global market for Patient monitoring devices is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.7%
from 2014 to 2022 and reach $23.4 billion. As announced, the Asia-Pacific market grows
rapidly, but North America remains the market for patient monitoring devices. Europe
takes the second place, behind North America, as largest market for patient monitoring
devices, and is expected to grow steadily during the forecasted period (Ref 54).
The medical application is a key to success for smart textiles, particularly for continuous monitoring, neonatal care and surveillance of certain diseases like diabetes or epilepsy. This application is currently being developed even though it is complex for companies that invest in smart wearables for healthcare purposes because each product must go through lengthy and expensive authorization processes to be put on the market. Moreover, the impact of the exchange of data cannot be neglected as it can pose an ethical problem because medical data are the most sensible ones. The medical application of smart textiles concerns two main applications: monitoring and home support. The common point of those uses resides in the monitoring that can refer to Quantified Self, that is to say the monitoring of variables that cannot exceed a certain limit. Smart medical clothes are equipped with sensors that monitor the patient. Those clothes combine textile and telemedicine for the monitoring of different parts of the body. They (CNIL, 2014) :
• Warn patients on the evolution of their disease, • Help physicians diagnosing a disease, • Monitor the physiological variables of a patient,
• Automatically alert the ER if needed. The collected data are then sent to telemedicine centers via a communication network.
Most monitoring focus on diabetes, cardiovascular, respiratory and neurological diseases and the elderly with specific needs.
• People worried about staying healthy could use those smart textiles to monitor their way of life and adapt it if needed.
• People in good health but who could develop a specific disease could wear those smart textiles to prevent the declaration of a disease.
Patients suffering from a chronic disease could better manage their condition, prevent or delay a disease and ease one’s pain thanks to textiles that administers a drug. The elderly can be remotely monitored and stay at home thanks to those devices that will help relatives and physicians to anticipate an accident. Smart textiles increase the interaction between the doctor and the patient, making the latter actor of their own health With the use of smart textiles, patients could live better, be healthier and more independent. They will consequently lower the cost of healthcare.
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PROTECTION APPLICATION
The protection application is a driver for the smart textile market
in general. Like many innovations such as the Internet or the
GPS, it is in the military that smart textiles have been created
with the Wearable Motherboard project (Ref 70). Protection is still
the biggest sector of smart textiles and the most mature. It
should stay the case until 2020 (Ref 71).
The global smart textile market saw an important growth in all
major end-use sectors. The military sector remains one of the
most attractive sectors. Soldiers could achieve a higher level of
performance thanks to the integration of sensors, triggers and
control units in their clothing. In the military sector, smart textiles
can be used to camouflage a soldier, monitor health, detect one’s
location and sense heat or cold stress (Ref 72).
Smart textiles used for protection not only concern military
personnel but also the safety of firefighters, law enforcement and
workers. The protection sector represents the whole of clothing
items, gloves, shoes and accessories for the safety in the
professional field. Their goal is to protect people from impacts,
heat, cold, nuclear, bacteriological and chemical risks.
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The utility of smart textiles for
protection
In extreme environmental conditions and risky situations, it is necessary to obtain information in real time to increase the protection of people working under these circumstances. Risks and threats are diverse: extreme temperatures, chemical risks, accidents (falls), voluntary attacks, physiological accidents (a heart attack for example).
Smart textiles have a great potential in the protection application because they enable the increase of the level of security and comfort of soldiers, firefighters and workers.
Smart textiles contribute to the protection in various ways (Van Langenhove, Puers, Matthys, 2005) :
• They can detect conditions that will prevent a danger. • They prevent accidents by sending a signal when dangerous conditions are detected.
• In case of serious threats, they react by providing instantaneous protection.
In view of those 3 means of protection, the real benefit resides in the capacity to adapt to the environment and to react according to events. Smart textiles offer a higher level of protection when necessary. There is a balance between comfort and protection.
A protection
against extreme
temperatures
Greater
comfort
Location
detection
Camouflage
Figure 24: Functioning of a smart textile used
for protection purposes
By detecting a danger, the smart textile
increases the level of protection of the
uniform. There is a balance between
comfort and the level of protection
required.
Figure 24: The utility of smart textiles for
protection
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A need for
information
on the field
FASHION TECH
According to blogger STEM Educator Collette Costello Manchester UK « Fashion Technology
is the use of new technologies specifically within fashion such as Augmented Reality, Virtual
Reality, Artificial Intelligence (robots/ machines), Wearable Technology, Interactive
Chemicals, E-inks, Smart Fabrics, 3D Printing and the Internet of Things » (Ref 85).
In that sense, Fashion Tech is a mix between fashion and technology (Ref 86). It is the
way that designers incorporate the technology into the garment itself. This process aims at
making the garment aesthetic and offering customers a new digital experience in clothing
(Ref 87).
Some might define fashion tech as follows: “it’s where technology and fashion have merged
to create faster and more innovative ways to shop, market, educate and ultimately
experience the fashion industry whether through software, apps or products.” (Jennifer
Margolin, Founder of the Social Edge Summit).
In this study, we chose to define Fashion as Smart Garments.
Fashion Tech has two goals. The first one is to make the garment more beautiful with
technology. Designers play with various functions such as the change of color and light.
The second concerns sociability, for which, designers incorporate communication devices
into the garment in order to share data on social media or to interact with someone.
Sociability
Figure 25: Goals of the Fashion
Tech
Make the garment more
beautiful
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The most important factor is technology. Indeed, it is thanks to
technological advances that smart textiles exist. And it is in a «techno-
push» logic that innovative textiles arrive on the market.
Moreover, real needs emerge like the galvanization of the European
textile industry or because of some sociodemographic factors (aging
population…).
Despite a promise of steady growth for the next few years, the smart
textiles market has to take up diverse challenges. Companies on this
market should begin economies of scale so as to offer more affordable
prices. They also have to make those textiles credible and legitimate in
the eyes of consumers by proposing and setting up standards and
regulations.
The growth of the smart textiles market should be led by
sociodemographic, technological, economic and sectorial factors.
THE DRIVERS AND CHALLENGES OF THE
MARKET
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Challenges Despite powerful drivers, there are
challenges that slow down the growth of the market.
Development costs and
final price
The market is emerging
and companies have to
bear important R&D
costs. Those costs affect
the final price which is,
now, twice what
consumers are willing to
pay.
Regulatory challenge
Some markets, like the medical market have
to respect a strict regulation. Clinical tests
have a cost and take time. Moreover, the
question of the refund is not sorted out.
Economic challenges
The lack of qualified resources in
smart textiles and unknown links
in the value chain lead to a lack of
strategic plans by companies.
Technical challenges
Technologies are ready. But
some challenges like energy and
the direct integration of sensors
in fibers are still not solved.
Social challenges
The exchange of data, risks
for one’s health and the lack
of clear benefits for users
are challenges that have to
be taken up.
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CONSUMER INSIGHTS Smart Textiles are pretty new for consumers. Three years
ago when we lead a consumer insight survey, very few
aware of the Smart Textiles.
Figure 39: Part of people whom heard about Smart
Textiles
Did not heard about Smart Textiles (28.80%)
Heard about Smart Textiles (71.20)
71.2% of consumers
have heard about
Smart Textiles
Study conducted
in 2017
Panel of
250 peoples
Figure 40: Consumer’s expectations
For it to assist me when I exercise (49.19%)
For it to come with me when I travel (20.65%)
For it to charge my phone (9.69%)
For it to change colors (4.85%)
For it to be connected to another
connected object (10.95%)
Nothing (4.67%)
Figure 41: Consumer’s brakes
I do not find it useful (6.65%)
I do not like when electronic components are close to my skin (10.05%)
I fear for my health because of wave emission (16.85%)
The price (25.35%)
How to care for it (14.53%)
Comfort (8.19%)
My data being used (12.52%)
The complexity of use (5.87%)
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The “Healthy Lifestyle” trend is for the
consumer to eat healthy, to take care of
their body practicing sports, fitness, yoga
and feeling “strong and confident”.
The “Healthy Lifestyle” trend is
shown and promoted on social
networks.
Instagram alone counts up to 95
millions of healthy hashtags and
tweets about healthy lifestyle are as
numerous.
Moreover, Smart Textiles can be a real
health assistant. Consumers are pretty
interested in the use of Smart Textiles
to heal themselves or to monitor their
health state. 37.6% of them think a
Smart Textile would be useful to cure
an illness and 40.8% think a Smart
Textile would help them.
Figure 41: Consumer’s opinion about
the use of Smart Textile for health
It is very useful (37.6%)
It is a constraint (10.4%)
It will help me heal (40.8%)
It is not useful (5.2%)
I do not like it (6%)
For the Smart Textiles to be a wellness/health assistant
The first consumers’ expectation is for the Smart Textiles to be a
wellness/health assistant.
This expectation follows the “Healthy Lifestyle” we have been noticing for
the past 3 years.
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LEGAL ISSUES
Involved with Smart Textiles
Even though the smart textiles market is only emerging, it already shows signs of
strong competition. Thus, it is best for companies to protect their innovations so
as to obtain returns on investments. Because of the nature of smart textiles, it
seems wise to use several means of protection.
If the majority of markets are highly regulated, the connected textiles market is
faced with a legal void. It is not so much about protecting a technology but about
guaranteeing the good use of the users’ personal data.
Faced with the diversity of skills required for smart textiles, companies join forces
and put in common their strength. It is recommended to supervise those
partnerships by consortium contracts or licenses. But protecting the company’s
anterior and in house expertise should not be forgotten.
In USA / Europe / APAC
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MARKET FORECASTS
The global market of smart textiles is estimated at $853.97 million in
2018 and should reach $2,242.95 million in 2023.
The protection application which currently dominates the market should
become second with a market share of X% in 2023. This decrease in
market shares will do good for the medical application which will
represent X%
Despite a lower level of development, the medical application should
experience a strong growth this year. This growth can be explained by
the current standardization projects of the European Community on
connected health.
The growth rates of the protection application are encouraging. But its
growth should not be as strong during the studied period of time.
The sports application should greatly participate in the democratization
of smart textiles but will quickly be slowed down by a lack of interests
from consumers.
$853.97 million
Figure 59: Global market of
smart textiles in 2018
PROTECTION SPORTS
HEALTH
Figure 60: Sector ranking of the smart textiles
market in 2018
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151 companies and 19 organizations relevant in the sector of smart textiles were cataloged.
The market is mostly composed of small and medium-sized businesses, representing 40,2% of the
economic base of the sector. Startups represent 25,4% of the market.
The presence of big companies is new. Up until a few years ago, they were under-represented on
this market. Now, they represent 17,2% of it.
Figure 70: Size distribution of firms in the smart textile sector
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MAPPING OF COMPANIES AND ORGANIZATIONS
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Date of creation
1853
CEO
Charles V. Bergh
Country
USA
Workforce
N/A
Revenue
4.9b USD
Sector
Fashion
http://levistrauss.com/
ACTIVITY
Levi Strauss
Levi Strauss is world-famous for its jeans. In 2001, Levi’s had
formed a partnership with Philips and had commercialized a
jacket equipped with a cell phone and an MP3 player. This product
did not meet the expected success.
In 2015, The company signed a partnership with Google for the
Project Jacquard. Its goal was to design a smart item of clothing.
This item was supposed to be made from conductive materials
and electronic components that could control other smart
objects from a distance.
At the beginning, Google and Levi Strauss wanted to design a
smart jean. They wanted to develop a conductive fabric to allow
the jean to send data and be powered without any wires. The
project changed quite a lot since then, as it is now a jacket, and the
only smart part is one sleeve of jacket. It is sold at the price of 350
USD.
The smart part of the sleeve is made of a tag acting like a smart
watch: it lights up, vibrates when receiving notifications, can be
tapped to command the smartphone and is the hub of the jacket.
The user only has to stroke his arm to control his smartphone.
To be used, the jacket constantly needs to be connected to the
Smartphone and the user has to use their headphones. Finally,
the jacket can only be washed 10 times, after this the smart tag
will be damaged.
The patent relative to the jacket is named “Interactive fabric”
(WO2017200949 A1) and was filed in 2016.
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Date of creation
2014
CEO
Simon Cooper
Country
Israel
Workforce
10
Revenue
N/A
Sector
Sport
http://likeaglove.me/
ACTIVITY
Like A Glove
Like a Glove developed and commercializes leggings which measure the user’s waist and
hips at multiple points thanks to a sensor on the front of the garment. There is only one size
available as the leggings are stretchy enough to fit from a size 0 to a size 20. A battery the
size of a coin is embedded in the leggings and has an estimated lifetime of 5 years. A mobile
app allows the user to share her progress on her social networks.
This garment has two main goals. The first one is to track fitness progress overtime. The
second one is to help the user to choose the best form of jeans according to her body shape.
One patent was filed in 2014 entitled “Self-Measurement Garment”. It explains
“Measurement apparatus includes an elastic fabric, configured as a garment to be worn over
a part of a body of a subject. One or more conductive fibers are integrated with the elastic
fabric to as to stretch together with the elastic fabric when worn over the part of the body. A
controller is coupled to measure an electrical property of the one or more conductive fibers
in response to stretching of the elastic fabric, and to output an indication of a dimension of the
part of the body based on the measured property.”
The legging is sold online at the price of $ 80.
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Date of creation
1987
CEO
Seok Sun Choe
Country
Korea
Workforce
N/A
Revenue 570m USD
(2016)
Sector
Textile
http://www.kolonglotech.co.kr/
ACTIVITY
Kolon Glotech
Kolon Glotech is a manufacturing company specialized in automotive materials and life materials. They
design and manufacture car seat modules and fabrics, artificial turf, polypropylene staple fiber and
polyester filaments.
They developed a heat generating textile. To do so, the fabric is manufactured from conductor polymers,
electronic circuitry and an electronic device fusion technique. This textile called Heatex, heats up
uniformly and can be controlled thanks to a smartphone. It can be used in sports clothing and also
workwear. This technology can also protect military from hard weather condition.
The brand, Kolon Sport, commercialized the « Life Tech Jacket », a jacket for extreme activities and winter
sports. The jacket is made of 3 layers of fabric: the external layer is waterproof, the layer in between is
made of conductor polymers generating heat and the internal layer contains all the electronics as well as
the battery for the heating system. The jacket also contains a miniature wind turbine that can supply
energy to the item of clothing, a GPS or a smartphone. The jacket can also be placed in a tent to generate
energy. The Life Tech Jacket was launched in December 2013.
In 2018, Kolon collaborates with Nokia and GINA
(software developper) to create the CHASE
LifeTech FR. The jacket allows the user to have
data such as heart rate, temperature or location
through modular sensors. These sensors can
therefore be changed to measure different types
of data. For example, a firefighter will need more
than one temperature sensor. These sensors
transmit data in real time which can be useful for
police and firefighters during their
interventions, for example.
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Date of creation
2014
CEO Alexis Ucko
Country
France
Workforce
15 employees
Revenue N/A
Sector Healthcare and
fitness
www.percko.com/
ACTIVITY
Percko
Perko designed a smart t-shirt that helps its users adopt a better posture every day.
The founders noted that the origin of 33% of work accidents was a back problem. By working
with physiotherapists and masseur-physiotherapists, Alexis Ucko and Quentin Perraudeau
developed a patented system made of tensors that maintain the spinal column and put a
painless pressure on the back in case of bad posture.
Acting as a second skin, the system is invisible under a t-shirt.
Two products are available online: The Lyne Up to release back pain and Lyne Up to avoid
back pain while working out. Both are sold at the price of 129 euros.
Percko owns a worldwide patent entitled “Posture Improvement Aid”, filed in 2016
(WO2016198358 (A1)). It explains “The invention relates to a posture improvement aid (DISP)
comprising: a belt including a rear portion; a first side stretcher including a first end and a
second side stretcher including a first end, the first ends of the first side stretcher and of the
second side stretcher meeting in a stimulation region; and a resilient connection including a
first end attached to the rear portion of the belt and a second end attached to the stimulation
region, said resilient connection being constructed and arranged such that when the rear
portion of the belt is positioned on the posterior superior iliac spine of the user, the
stimulation region is positioned between the third lumbar vertebra and the fifth lumbar
vertebra of the user.”
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Canadian Projects
European Projects
United States Projects
Asian Projects
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
The first project concerning a smart textile was carried out at the beginning of the ‘90s by DARPA and is known as the « Wearable Motherboard ».
As of now, 11 European projects are ongoing or have recently ended. For the most part, they were financed by the European Union. 6 North-American
projects were listed. Moreover, North-American projects are more centered on protection applications than European projects.
Finally, 1 Asian project is presented.
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MATUROLIFE aims at addressing the gap of the Assistive Technologies (AT), which can be stigmatising and uncomfortable because of the lack of relevance,
weak reliability or also poor design. This results in older people not using them and thus not benefitting from them. That is why, MATUROLIFE plans on designing prototypes with the help of users. They will develop functional and more fashionable items of clothing,
footwear and furnitutre.
MATUROLIFE will develop smart textiles and fabrics to contribute to the independence, quality of life and dignity of senior citizens living in urban areas. The
overall improvement of Assistive Technologies (AT) will lead to reduced needs and thus reduced costs of long-
term care.
To do so, MATUROLIFE will follow a genuine co-design approachin involving older people (Ref 131).
Calendar Beginning: 01/2018 End: 12/2020
Funding N/A Budget N/A
Companies Coventry University, Eurocarers, Uniwersytet Przyrodniczo, Institut francais du textile et de l’habillement, Instituto tecnologico de Aragon, Printed Electronics Ltd…
PROJECT
Calendar Beginnin: 04/2016
End: 03/2021
Funding N/A
Budget €2,112,500
Companies Comune di Prato,
Capofila , Next Technology Tecnotessile,
Regione Lodz , CLUTEX, Textile
Research Institute …
PROJECT
RESET
RESearch Centers of Excellence in the Textile sector is designed to improve research and innovation infrastructures. RESET wants to promote the exchange of good practices between regions and research centers of
European textile districts. The goal is also to transfer skills and experiences concerning
innovative methodologies and solutions that were proved to be successful in the participating regions. The aim is to make good practices and
promote projects that will support regional excellences in terms of research, innovation and
development.
The principal objectives are to encourage the industry to convert to smart textiles or even
promote the use of natural fibers and local raw materials (Ref 132).
Maturolife
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