ETexWeld — Welding of E-Textiles for Interactive Clothing

Results in brief

Welding of E-Textiles for Interactive Clothing

The new field of science dealing with the implementation of electronics to textiles in combination with informatics is known as e-textiles. ETEXWELD project has led knowledge transfer among partners in order to develop innovative e-textile structures for firefighter’s protective clothing using welding technologies by bringing experts from different countries, sectors and disciplines together to focus their effort in innovative e-textile product designs. The project is the combination of welding, textiles, electronics and informatics technologies that aims to develop novel e-textile structures including transmission lines, sensors, actuators, personalized algorithms, on-body computing and user feedbacks in order to make a breakthrough towards development of interactive fire fighter’s suit that able to monitor health, activity, position of the firefighter when he is in a firefighting operation. In the project, the welding technologies are mainly used in three concepts: I. Designing transmission lines of e-textile structures; II. Integration of electronic elements (different sensors, actuators, microprocessors, data transmission and power supply systems) to textile structures; III. Design and development of the whole e-textile system for firefighter’s protective clothing. During the project, almost all the parts of the smart textile system has been achieved for 1st generation, but the market readiness of the system has not been proved. However, 1st generation performances obtained in the ETEXWELD will probably lead pioneering contributions to new generation of firefighters’ suits and pieces of equipment towards European policy objectives and strategies. Moreover, new market opportunities are expected to arise in the area of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

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Project objective

The new field of science dealing with implementation of electronics to textiles in combination with informatics is known as e-textiles. This project proposal leads to knowledge transfer among partners in order to develop innovative e-textile products for interactive protective clothing and footwear using welding technologies by bringing experts from different countries, sectors and disciplines together to focus their effort in innovative e-textile product designs. Within this context, the project aims to develop novel e-textile structures including transmission lines, sensors, actuators, microprocessors, personalized algorithms, on-body computing and user feedbacks in order to make a breakthrough towards development of interactive protective clothing and footwear that able to monitor health, activity, position of the user in the environmental risky situations, the welding technologies will be mainly used in three concepts:I.Designing of transmission lines of e-textile structures; II.Integration of electronic elements (different sensors, actuators, microprocessors, data transmission and power supply systems) to textile structures; III.Design and development of whole e-textile system for protective clothing applications including interactive protective garments and shoes.Thus, project draws on strong transitions of textiles, electronics and informatics researches and is internationally acknowledged for its pioneering contributions to e-textile researches through the industry-academia cooperation. This will not only help to develop future generations of entrepreneurial researchers more capable of contributing effectively to the knowledge-based e-textile research area, within and between public and private sectors, but also add to the intersectorial and trans-national employability of these researchers as well as to the attraction of young people to a research career on textile/electronics areas.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

ISTANBUL TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI · Maslak, IstanbulCoordinatorTürkiye
@HEALTH · AIX EN PROVENCEFrance
ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE ARTS INDUSTRIES TEXTILES · RoubaixFrance
HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY · HONG KONGChina
INLAS INTELEKTUALNA LASTNINA IN SVETOVANJE DOO · Slovenske KonjiceSlovenia
KINGS METAL FIBER TECHNOLOGIES CO.LTD · TaichungTaiwan
KIVANC KIMYA SANAYII VE TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI · BASAKSEHIR ISTANBULTürkiye
PANEPISTIMIO DYTIKIS ATTIKIS · AIGALEOGreece
TAIWAN TEXTILE RESEARCH INSTITUTE · NEW TAIPEI CITYTaiwan
TEXNOLOGIES FOTONIKON KAI HLEKTRONIKON SYSTHMATVN AE · Peristeri AttikisGreece
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER · ManchesterUnited Kingdom
UNITED MEDICAL INNOVATION LTD · SANDBACHUnited Kingdom

ETexWeld · Welding of E-Textiles for Interactive Clothing

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Welding of E-Textiles for Interactive Clothing

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