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Upgraded Life FestivalMay 18th 2015
+ Clothing+ textile electronics in home healthcare
Clothing+ Key Figures
+ Story begins in 1998+ Pioneer in combining textiles and electronics in mass production+ Net sales in 2014 was 10 MEUR (11M USD) + Profitable in 2011+ Some 400 employees globally+ 3 million textile-integrated sensor products delivered in 2014+ The future growth potential for textile-integrated electronics is huge
Clothing+ is the largest company developing and manufacturing textile-integrated sensors in the world
Textile Industry
Electronics Industry
Clothing+ is a bridge between two huge industries
Position in the value chain: integrator
Clothing+ provides both development and mass-production of wearable sensors
Clothing+´ customers are global apparel and tech giants, who create the applications for the end users
Clothing+ has a global network of materials and technology suppliers gathered over 15 years
Clothing+ Resources
20 experts in product development+ Mechanical engineering+ Electronics engineering+ Textile engineering+ Design+ Testing+ Prototyping+ Material sourcing+ Quality control
Clothing+ Resources
Dedicated electrotextiles mass-production environment
Optimal and versatile assembly technologies+ Laser cutting, three different lamination
technologies, ultrasonic welding, dispensing, screen printed electronics, electrical testing, machine vision, etc.
3 million textile integrated sensor products delivered in 2014
Clothing+ Sensor Clothes in Mass-Production
HISTORY+ PureLime sports bra, 2010+ Adidas MiCoach Elite Team, 2012+ Under Armour E39, 2013+ Lululemon All* Sports HRM bra, 2013
2014+ Mbody EMG Shorts+ Berlei Podium HRM Bra+ Shock Absorber Run HRM Bra+ Kalenji HRM Sports Top+ Salomon Movesense HRM Bra + Tee+ OMSignal + Ralph Lauren shirts
Clothing+ makes about 75 % of the world’s textile heart rate sensor straps for a clientele including Garmin, Suunto, Adidas, Samsung, TomTom, Under Armour, Timex and Sigma Sport.
+ Textiles are natural to put on and comfortable to wear+ An invisible and easily accepted way to wear sensors+ Correct sensor placement is solved with carefully designed clothes or accessories+ Good and natural fit in many places on the body+ Sensors can be placed strategically on the body + Minimizing the movement artefact+ Required cables can be integrated in the textile+ Textile-integrated electronics can be worn unobtrusively, even over a long period
of time+ Miniaturization of electronics/large area to hide batteries and power-harvesting
components
Strengths of Textile-Integrated Wearable Sensors
Big Picture
+ Growing interest in personal wellbeing+ Monitoring the effects of sports, exercise and changes in lifestyle+ Motivation, comparing results with peers+ Collecting and sharing interesting personal data
+ We believe that sensing will be the new basic function for all premium sports wear within the next few years
+ We believe that adding sensors to garments will be one of the main trends in collecting contextual information about the wearer
Healthcare In Transition
+ Public healthcare systems facing ever increasing costs
+ Ageing population+ Pressure to decrease visits to doctor
+ Solution: evolve from treatment to prevention
Clothing+ Medical:Philips Home Health Care
+ A weak heart accumulates water in the lungs
+ If untreated, can lead to hospitalization + Water accumulation trend is measured
with a bio-impedance vest + Trend analysis can detect symptoms up
to 10 days before collapse+ Monitor comfortably and reliably at
home
Great example of long-term home healthcare with wearable textile sensors
+ ECG (heart rate, heart rate variability, heart activity)
+ EEG (brain waves)+ EMG (muscle activity)+ Bio-impedance (body composition, lung activity,
dehydration)+ SCR (skin conductivity, emotions, activity)+ Accelerometers (motion, postures)+ Optical sensors (heart rate, blood oxygen level)+ Inductive/capacitive (heart rate, muscle activity)+ Temperature+ Acoustics (joint fatigue, heart rate)
Potential signals to measure
Bryan Clay Olympic Champion Decathlon (Beijing 2008) is
testing EMG-pants
We have been doing this for 17 years and have learned a lot along the way
We are eager to learn more, let’s talk!
