E-textiles are entering the validation era
New research compares a smart garment-integrated e-textile heart rate monitor with 3-lead ECG during running, showing strong agreement across speeds.
Smart Garments & Connected Textiles
Integrating sensors, interconnects, electronics and connectivity into textile products designed for real use.
What it is
Smart garments and connected textiles combine conventional garment construction with embedded sensing and connectivity, whether that's heart rate and motion sensing in sportswear, posture or biosignal monitoring in workwear, or connected features in consumer apparel. The garment has to remain a garment first: comfortable, launderable and manufacturable at the volumes and cost points the apparel industry expects.
Problems this solves
- Electronics that compromise the fit, comfort or drape of the garment
- Connectivity and power architecture that hasn't accounted for antenna performance near or on the body
- A garment supply chain and an electronics supply chain that have never had to coordinate before
- Standards and certification requirements that fall between textile and electronics regulation
How we work
- Work with garment construction from the start, not as an afterthought to the electronics
- Select and validate sensing, interconnect and connectivity approaches against the garment's real construction and use
- Coordinate directly with garment manufacturers so the design matches what a production line can actually build
- Test antenna and connectivity performance in situ, on the body, not on a bench
Who it's for
- Sportswear and performance apparel brands
- Workwear and industrial garment manufacturers
- Healthcare companies developing monitoring garments
- Textile manufacturers adding electronics capability to an existing range
Building something that combines electronics and textiles?
Tell us where you are in the process, from a sketch through to a product ready for manufacture. No obligation, and no question too early.