Electronics Design
Louise Smyth meets the speakers whose presentations on wearable electronics were the highlight of a recent industry event.
Louise Smyth rencontre les orateurs, dont les présentations relatives aux dispositifs électroniques prêt-à-porter ont constitué le point fort d’un récent évènement dans le secteur.
Louise Smyth trifft die Referenten, deren Präsentationen zu tragbarer Elektronik das Highlight einer kürzlich stattgefundenen Branchenveranstaltung darstellten.
Fashion statement A
mong a variety of compelling topics discussed at the Research Innovation and Science for
Engineered Fabrics Conference (RISE) in February 2015, it was the issue of wearable electronics that prompted the most debate – both in and out of the conference sessions. Harry Zervos, principal analyst
at IDTechEx gave one of the most interesting presentations, on the future potential of such technologies. Tackling some complex subject matter, in his presentation entitled Textile Integration of Electronic Functionality: Market Forecasts for the Next Decade, Zervos revealed some of the fruits of his labours in the analysis of the technologies and markets for flexible electronics. And these are
by no means small markets. “With a wide range of products, from glasses and other headgear to arm, wrist, leg and footwear, skin patches and even jewellery, the device business is already large, at over US$14 billion in 2014,” explains Zervos. “It also has a large number of big brands involved, such as Apple, Accenture, Adidas, Fujitsu, Nike, Philips, Reebok, Samsung, SAP and Roche behind the most promising new developments. “However, truly disruptive new
technology, in the form of e-textiles, will also begin to establish major sales in a few years’ time and fashion, industrial, commercial and military applications will burgeon as a consequence.” Zervos says that the issue of whether
the consumer or the industrial sector will first embrace the next generation
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