Dublin, Jan. 14, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/gjwp5s/smart_textiles) has announced the addition of the "Smart Textiles Markets 2016-2023" report to their offering.
This report identifies the opportunities emerging from commercialization of smart textiles. These include textiles that are fabricated from smart materials or utilize sensing devices that are seamlessly integrated into the textile.
The largest market for smart textiles is to be found in the medical sector, which will become an $843 million market by 2021. Using smart clothing, patients with chronic diseases, such as diabetes and heart problems, will continuously and simply monitor their health and send updates to their physician, providing more useful data and avoiding office visits. Technology of this kind already exists in smart sports clothing and will be extended to medical applications as sensors become more accurate
Meanwhile, the market for self-cleaning textiles will reach $573 million by 2021. While this kind of technology has been available for some time, driving its growth will be ability of self-cleaning textile coatings to become fully omniphobic - being able to rid fabrics of a broader range of dirt, oil and grease, wine stains, etc. In addition, self-cleaning textiles are expected to integrate smart antimicrobial capabilities. Self-cleaning textiles that are hydrophobic on the outside and hydrophilic on inside are also being developed. These repel water and stains from the outside while minimizing perspiration stains.
By 2021 smart textiles are expected to use $134 million in sensors with more than half of those revenues coming from pressure sensors. The report notes that this is an area that is attracting venture capital where it benefits from the current interest of VCs in the related area of IoT sensors. There are also important new textile-specific developments in the sensor area, such as the creation of fabric transistors.
Applications and Markets:
This report includes an analysis of applications where n-tech believes smart textiles have a real opportunity to move beyond the lab and expensive demonstrations high-volume commercial applications.
Applications covered include:
- Health and Fitness: Sportswear, health monitoring, and clinical applications
- Military and Security: Uniforms for soldiers and firefighters
- Fashion: Functional clothing for the masses
- Non-clothing applications: Solar cells, automotive, and more.
This report provides coverage of how the following categories of materials are being used to fabricate commercially available smart textiles:
- Electrically conductive yarns and threads
- Conductive polymers
- Shape memory materials
- Color-changing materials
- Phase-changing materials
- Self-cleaning and antimicrobial materials
- Nanomaterials
This report contains detailed forecasts of volume (in square meters and units) and revenue (in $ millions), broken down by:
- End application
- Type of material
- Fabrication method
Profiles of Key Players:
This report evaluates the product/market strategies of the leading suppliers of key materials for smart textiles. These firms include giants such as DuPont, as well as newer and smaller companies and startups that n-tech believes have compelling products that are likely to make inroads into the smart textiles market.
Key Topics Covered:
Executive Summary
E.1 Market Opportunities: Blurring the Lines between Fashion, Technology, and Healthcare
E.2 Emerging Second Generation Smart Textiles: Sports, Health and Fashion
E.2.1 Tracking Motion and Ensuring Comfort: Sports and Fitness
E.2.2 Monitoring Health: Medical Applications
E.2.3 What Role will the Fashion Industry Play in Smart Clothing?
E.3 Technical Trends in Smart Materials and the Future of Smart Textiles
E.3.1 R&D Trends
E.3.2 Moving Technology into the Garment: Opportunities and Challenges for Manufacturing
E.4 Influential Firms to Watch in the Smart Textiles Sector
E.4.1 Adidas: Bringing a Brand Name to Smart Textiles
E.4.2 BASF: Possible Future Smart Textiles Powerhouse
E.4.3 BeBop Sensors: Funding for a Multifunctional Smart Textile Company
E.4.4 Clothing+/Jabil: Printing Intelligence in Smart Textiles
E.4.5 Schoeller Textiles: Functional Fabrics Get Smarter
E.4.6 OMSignal: Embedded Biometrics
E.4.7 Sensoria: More Than Smart Shirts
E.5 Summary of Eight-Year Forecasts for Smart Textiles Materials
E.5.1 Summary by Type of Material
E.5.2 Summary by Functionality
E.5.3 Summary by Application
Chapter One: Introduction
1.1 Background to this Report
1.1.1 The New Smart Fabrics: Smart Materials and Integrated Sensors
1.1.2 Integration Defining the Opportunities in Smart Materials
1.1.3 Merging Fashion and Function
1.1.4 A Bottom Line
Chapter Two: Materials and Technology Advances in Smart Textiles
2.1 Electrically Conductive Fabrics
2.1.1 Metallic Fibers
2.1.2 Conductive Polymers
2.2 Embedding Sensors into Textiles
2.2.1 Pressure Sensors
2.2.2 Heating and Temperature Sensing
2.2.3 Motion Sensors
2.2.4 Measuring Biometrics
2.2.5 Chemical Sensors and Biosensors
2.3 Powering Smart Textiles
2.3.1 Textile-based Solar Cells
2.3.2 Energy Harvesting and Storage
2.4 Electronics and Communication
2.4.1 Embedding Electronic Components
2.4.2 Textile Transistors
2.5 Inherently Smart Fabrics
2.5.1 Types of Color-changing Fabrics
2.5.2 Color-Changing Materials for Camouflage Uniforms
2.5.3 Smart Fabrics for Cold and Hot Weather
2.5.4 Antimicrobial Fabrics
2.5.5 Use of Shape Memory materials
2.5.6 Self-cleaning Fabrics
2.5.7 Self-Healing Fabrics
2.5.8 Nanomaterials and Other Emerging Opportunities
2.6 Manufacturing Challenges
2.6.1 Weaving and Knitting
2.6.2 Printing
2.6.3 Embroidery
2.6.4 Addressing Washability
2.6.5 Environmentally Friendly Processes
2.6.6 Merging Textile and Electronics Production
2.6.7 Smart Textiles and the Evolving Global Textile Market
2.7 Key Points from this Chapter
Chapter Three: Applications for Smart Textiles
3.1 Overlap between Health and Fitness Markets
3.2 Sports-focused Applications
3.2.1 The IP Battle in the Smart Shirt Sector
3.2.2 Sports-focused Applications beyond Biometric Shirts
3.2.3 Products for Adventurers
3.2.4 Companies to Watch in the Sportswear Industry
3.3 Medical-focused Applications
3.3.1 Smart Textiles for in-Home Monitoring of Health Conditions
3.3.2 Smart Textiles for use in Hospitals and Clinics
3.3.3 Companies to Watch in the Medical Sector
3.4 Clothing for the Military
3.4.1 Moving Technology to the Individual
3.4.2 Smart Clothing for Soldiers
3.4.3 Leveraging Medical Applications
3.4.4 Color-Shifting Textiles for the Military
3.5 Protective Clothing for First Responders and Industrial Workers
3.5.1 Smart Uniforms for Firefighters
3.5.2 Addressing the Needs of Industrial Workers
3.6 Changes in the Fashion Industry
3.6.1 Blending Design and Technology
3.6.2 Blurring the Lines between Fashion and Athletic Wear
3.7 Niche Applications for Smart Textiles
3.7.1 Safety and Security
3.7.2 Transportation
3.7.3 Architecture
3.8 Key Points from this Chapter
Chapter Four: Eight-Year Forecasts for Materials and Sensors in Smart Textiles
4.1 Forecast Methodology
4.1.1 Raw Data
4.1.2 Calculations
4.1.3 Scope of Coverage
4.2 Smart Textiles: Forecasts by Smart Material Type
4.2.1 Color-shifting Materials
4.2.2 Antimicrobial Coatings
4.2.3 Self-cleaning Coatings
4.2.4 Heating and Cooling Fabrics
4.2.5 Conductive Yarns, Threads, and Inks
4.3 Forecasts by Type of Sensor
4.3.1 Pressure Sensors
4.3.2 Biometric Sensors
4.3.3 Motion Sensors
4.2.4 Chemical Sensors and Biosensors
4.4 Forecasts by Application
4.4.1 Health and Fitness
4.4.2 Medical
4.4.3 Military
4.4.4 Fashion Industry
4.4.5 Non-Clothing Applications
Companies Mentioned
- Adidas
- AiQ
- BASF
- BeBop
- Bekaert
- Bodi Trak
- Carre
- Chromat
- Cisalfa
- Clariant
- Clothing+
- Diffus
- Dow Chemical
- DuPont
- Durafil
- Google
- Heddoko
- Imprint Energy
- Intel
- Jabil
- Lands' End
- Levi Strauss
- LifeSense
- Lost Explorer
- MAD Apparel
- Nike
- Nolla
- NTT
- Ohmatex
- Philips Healthcare
- Ralph Lauren
- Sarvint
- Schoeller Textiles
- Sefar
- Sensoria
- Silic
- SLIP Technologies
- TE Connectivity
- Under Armour
- Viavi
- VTT
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