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Smart Textile and Wearable

Technology in Fashion and

Clothing

Presentation of Survey

Borås 2013-03-04

Lena Berglin

Aim

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•  Survey of smart textiles in fashion and clothing based on EU-projects, University and Company activities

•  Analyse the relation between research and

commercial activities

•  Inform and discuss the result

Smart Textile and Wearable

technology

•  New textile materials and structures

•  Miniaturisation of electronics

•  Wireless technology

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Pioneering projects •  Steve Mann

•  Maggie Orth

•  New Nomads

•  The Wearable Motherboard

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Steve Mann Maggie Orth New Nomads Wearable Motherboard

Definition of Smart Textile

•  Smart Textile are materials that sense and respond in a predefined manner

•  Sensors, Actuators, conductive materials, controling unit

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Sensors

•  Transform one type of Light into another signal (Thermal, Light, Sound, Pressure, Strain)

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Press Sensor Strain Sensor Textile Microphone Temperature Sensor Heart Rate Sensor

Actuator

•  Responds to a signal and cause change (Chromic, Shape, Light)

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Conductive materials

•  Transmission of data

•  Creating sensor and actuator structures

•  Metal based, carbon, conductive polymer

•  Fibre, yarns, films coatings

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Metal based Yarns Carbon fibre Conductive Polymer

Metallic film Condcutive Coating

Overview

•  EU-projects

•  Other University activity

•  Companies

•  Focus on Europe

•  Literature studies, project databases,

Enquiry

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EU-projects

•  Health Monitoring

•  Workwear

•  Enabling technologies

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Monitoring system

•  Textile sensors

•  Garments

•  Measurement devices

•  Signal processing

•  Communication

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Wealthy

•  Health monitoring system based on textile sensors, advanced signal processing and modern

telecommunication techniques

•  Breathing sensor based on coated lycra fabric

•  Heart rate sensor made of knitted metal-based yarn.

•  1,78 Million Euro

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My Heart

•  Continuation of Wealthy

•  Gain knowledge of health status on large groups of people

•  16 Million Euro

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BioTex

•  Developing biochemical-sensing techniques compatible with integration in textiles

•  Sensing patches adapted to different body fluids

•  1,9 Million Euro

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Mermoth

•  Medical remote monitoring

•  Textil, electronic hardware and computing software in a system

•  0.9 Million Euro

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Ofseth

•  Optical sensing instead of electrical sensors

•  Caridac, respiratory, pulse oxymetry

•  2.3 Million Euro

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Context

•  Contactless sensors

•  Muscle activity

•  2.3 Million Euro

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Proetex

•  Rescue firefighters

•  Heart rate and temperature sensors

•  8.1 Million Euro

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ProfiTex and Wear IT

•  Increase work safety and efficiency of fire fighting interventions

•  Profitex 4 Million Euro

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Safe@Sea

•  Combining integration of ”State of the art” materials and ICT solutions into protective

clothing for working group at sea

•  3.1 Million Euro

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Stella project

•  New stretchable substrates with stretchable conductors

•  Assembly technology on stretchable substrates

•  Integration methods for electronics in tsretchable products

•  7 Million Euro

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Pasta

•  Electronic packaging

•  Interconnection technology

•  6.5 Million Euro

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Place IT

•  Development of technology platform for lightweight, thin and conformable opto electronic systems

•  Stretchable and fabric based deviced for light emission

•  Design guidelines to implement the technology

•  Demonstrators

•  10.9 Million Euro

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Microflex

•  Flexible materials by incorporating MEMS in fabrics

•  Develop inks with new functionality

•  Test industrially prototypes

•  5.4 Million Euro

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Dephotex

•  Flexible photovaltic textiles based on novel fibres

•  Solar radiation turned into energy

•  3.1 Million Euro

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University Activities

•  Activities in art and design schools

•  Extending the boundaries and application

for smart textiles

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Central St Martin

•  Biofracture

•  Responsive Textile

•  Wellbeing

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Saxion University and Eindhoven University of Technology

•  CRISP – Creative Industry Scientific Programme

•  Smart Textile Devices

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University of Ghent, Department of Textiles

•  Sock Lidwine

•  Mobiel

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Heriott Watt

•  Colour and light research group

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Estonian Art Academy

•  Colour change, luminescence

•  TechTextil 2011

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Estonian art academy

•  Kärt Ojavee

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Borås Smart Textile

•  Smart Textile Design Lab

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Borås

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Borås

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Zane Berzina

•  Professor Weissensee Berlin

•  E-Static

•  Touch

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Joanna Berzowska

•  Concordia University Canada

•  Memory rich garments

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Commercial Activities

•  Fashion and clothing companies

•  Design and devlopment consultants

•  Electronic consultant

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No-Contact

•  Personal protection

•  Electrical shock to avoid assault

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Utope

•  Austria

•  Wearable electronic system in urban wear

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Moon Berlin

•  Light and fashion

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Philips lightning

•  Lumalive

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Cute Circuit

•  London based company

•  Prét à porter and unique collection

•  LED and reflective materials

•  Hug shirt

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Clothing +

•  Wearable textile sensor for sports

•  First textile heart sensing system

•  Finnish company, production in china

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Textronics – adidas wearable group

•  Wearable senors for sports performance

•  Sensor, yarns, interconnects

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WarmX

•  German Company

•  Heating knitted underwear

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Myontec

•  Finnish Company

•  Systems for monitoring the performance of muscle activity

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Moritz Waldemeyer •  German Designer/Engineer

•  Collaborations with artist, fashion designer and architects

•  Closing ceremony of London OS 2012

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StealthWear

•  New York

•  Antidrone garments

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Hövding

•  Sweden

•  Bicycle helmet transformed into a fashion product

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Stretchable Circuit

•  German company

•  Company based on result from Stella project

•  Supports with electronics for textile integration

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Novanex

•  Germany

•  Design consultant in advanced textile development

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Ohmatex

•  Denmark

•  Consultant in IT and textile integration

•  Participated in numerous of EU-projects

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Lilypad

•  Leah Buchley, professor MIT Boston

•  Microprocessor adapted to be integrated in textiles

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Summary

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Conclusion

•  Research and Company Activities

•  EU projects ~73 Million Euro

•  Small companies

•  New structures – textile and electronic

competence

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Barriers

•  Technology

– Connection between textile and electronics

– Production - standards

– Power consumption

•  Cost

•  Application

– Subsitutes existing technologies

– Technology looking for a problem?

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Future directions

•  More technical applications (composites, industrial textiles)?

•  Higher level of merging textiles and

electronics?

•  New applications?

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