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SUMMARY:Intelligent Textiles: bridging the gap from  technology developmen
 t to product manufacturing 
DTSTART:20121130T140000
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kuni Cherenack\nLight Generation Dept.\nPhilips Corporate 
 Technologies\n‘Intelligent’ textiles’ - also known as smart textiles
 \, electro or e-textiles fall into the category of intelligent materials t
 hat sense and respond to environmental stimuli. Intelligent textiles come 
 in different flavors based on the design paradigm chosen to integrate elec
 tronic functions into the textile architecture. At the one extreme one fin
 ds intelligent textiles in which the textile acts as a substrate for attac
 hment of sensors\, output devices and printed circuit boards (garment and 
 fabric level integration). Subsequent development in this field has seen a
  drive to integrate the desired functionalities ‘disappearingly’ insid
 e the textile architecture [1\,2]. This implies creating intelligent texti
 les in which the electronic/optical sensors and output devices are introdu
 ced at the fiber level (fiber level integration).\nHowever from an industr
 ial standpoint\, no matter what integration route is chosen\, textile prod
 ucts need to be realized using existing manufacturing platforms\, and meet
  the needs of end-users. These needs include a number of hard to quantify 
 values such as comfort\, ease-of-use and emotional/social needs. Furthermo
 re\, future trends predict an increasing competition for resources due to 
 growing material shortages and exponentially growing populations. This is 
 driving industry to adopt new ‘sustainability’ principles towards prod
 uct development and manufacturing. Sustainability is defined by the EU as 
 development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the a
 bility of future generations to meet their own needs [3].\nIn this present
 ation I will present an overview of the field of intelligent textiles base
 d on my own experience and research towards making smart textiles within v
 arious Swiss and EU projects (TechInTex\, Place-it…). I will explain imp
 ortant insights from industry and future directions and discuss opportunit
 ies where intelligent textiles can have an added value for the design of c
 omfortable products that meet a number of important societal trends.\n\n[1
 ] S. Wagner\, E. Bonderover\, W. B. Jordan\, and J. C. Sturm. Electrotexti
 les: concepts and challenges. International Journal of High Speed Electron
 ics and Systems\, 12:391–399\, 2002.\n[2] O. Cakmakci\, M. Koyuncu\, M. 
 Eber-Koyuncu and E. Duriau. Fiber computing. In Proc. of the Workshop on D
 istributed and Disappearing User Interfaces in Ubiquitous Computing\, Comp
 uter-Human Interaction (CHI 2001)\, pages 1–7\, 2001.\n[3] European Com
 mission Communication on Sustainable Development ‘A Sustainable Europe f
 or a Sustainable World’ (COM2001 /264) (Commission proposal to the Gothe
 nburg European Council) published in 2001 and amended in 2005
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