Intelligent Textiles: bridging the gap from technology development to product manufacturing
Event details
| Date | 30.11.2012 |
| Hour | 14:00 › 15:00 |
| Speaker |
Dr. Kuni Cherenack Light Generation Dept. Philips Corporate Technologies |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
‘Intelligent’ textiles’ - also known as smart textiles, electro or e-textiles fall into the category of intelligent materials that sense and respond to environmental stimuli. Intelligent textiles come in different flavors based on the design paradigm chosen to integrate electronic functions into the textile architecture. At the one extreme one finds intelligent textiles in which the textile acts as a substrate for attachment 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’ inside the textile architecture [1,2]. This implies creating intelligent textiles in which the electronic/optical sensors and output devices are introduced at the fiber level (fiber level integration).
However from an industrial standpoint, no matter what integration route is chosen, textile products 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. Furthermore, 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 product development and manufacturing. Sustainability is defined by the EU as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs [3].
In this presentation I will present an overview of the field of intelligent textiles based on my own experience and research towards making smart textiles within various Swiss and EU projects (TechInTex, Place-it…). I will explain important insights from industry and future directions and discuss opportunities where intelligent textiles can have an added value for the design of comfortable products that meet a number of important societal trends.
[1] S. Wagner, E. Bonderover, W. B. Jordan, and J. C. Sturm. Electrotextiles: concepts and challenges. International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, 12:391–399, 2002.
[2] O. Cakmakci, M. Koyuncu, M. Eber-Koyuncu and E. Duriau. Fiber computing. In Proc. of the Workshop on Distributed and Disappearing User Interfaces in Ubiquitous Computing, Computer-Human Interaction (CHI 2001), pages 1–7, 2001.
[3] European Commission Communication on Sustainable Development ‘A Sustainable Europe for a Sustainable World’ (COM2001 /264) (Commission proposal to the Gothenburg European Council) published in 2001 and amended in 2005
However from an industrial standpoint, no matter what integration route is chosen, textile products 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. Furthermore, 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 product development and manufacturing. Sustainability is defined by the EU as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs [3].
In this presentation I will present an overview of the field of intelligent textiles based on my own experience and research towards making smart textiles within various Swiss and EU projects (TechInTex, Place-it…). I will explain important insights from industry and future directions and discuss opportunities where intelligent textiles can have an added value for the design of comfortable products that meet a number of important societal trends.
[1] S. Wagner, E. Bonderover, W. B. Jordan, and J. C. Sturm. Electrotextiles: concepts and challenges. International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, 12:391–399, 2002.
[2] O. Cakmakci, M. Koyuncu, M. Eber-Koyuncu and E. Duriau. Fiber computing. In Proc. of the Workshop on Distributed and Disappearing User Interfaces in Ubiquitous Computing, Computer-Human Interaction (CHI 2001), pages 1–7, 2001.
[3] European Commission Communication on Sustainable Development ‘A Sustainable Europe for a Sustainable World’ (COM2001 /264) (Commission proposal to the Gothenburg European Council) published in 2001 and amended in 2005
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Prof. Stephanie P Lacour