RAAK PRO HITEX
New developments in small-scale textile production, increasing knowledge about conductive materials, experimental research into 3D-printed connectors and the development of woven sensors and actuators mean that we see good opportunities for the digitization of textiles. Printing electronic circuit boards on plastic substrate or paper is quite possible. A problem is that a textile grid does not have that beautiful smooth structure, such as plastic, but a complex porous 3D structure, which causes adhesion problems.
The HITEX project will investigate the structure of the textile grid, the way in which smart materials can be processed on and in the textile grid and methods for producing digital textiles. In addition, there are also bottlenecks in the production chain that do not make this technological application of embedded electronics in textiles easy. System integration is of great importance precisely because of the many production steps and the complexity of integrating new materials and processes to traditional methods.
Genuine, widely used embedded electronics require integration across the entire chain. This means that all chain parties must come together to get results. To integrate electronics into textiles, every production step, from raw material to ready-to-wear, must be involved. With this consortium we have therefore composed a group with companies from every stage of production.
Project goal
Within the Ambient Intelligence research group, our focus is to research technologies for the integration of electronics into textiles, the use of IoT technologies and embedded systems to enable smart applications using textile materials as a soft carrier. Some of the research topics that will be covered are in the areas of IoT wireless technologies, embedded software, portable devices, power optimization, printing electronics or textile electronics integration.
Topics
Soft electronics, smart textiles, textile electronic integration, IoT, embedded systems
Partners
This project is being developed in close collaboration with several industrial partners and coordinated by the Sustainable Functional Textiles (SFT) research group at Saxion University of Applied Sciences, for more information visit www.saxion.edu/sft.
Duration
The duration is 4 years, running from October 2019 until October 2023.
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