{"id":1125,"date":"2021-08-05T14:33:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T12:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adresys.com\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:59:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:59:03","slug":"creating-impact-smart-textiles-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adresys.com\/en\/creating-impact-smart-textiles-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a broad impact: Smart textiles on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Proving every day<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Silke defines: To be suitable for everyday use, the ANGEL shirt must have a comfortable cut and be made from cotton. This material is usually required in the electrical industry because one can wear it well under flame-resistant protective clothing. The cuffs on the upper arms of the ANGEL shirt must not cut in, but the electrodes must still be well-positioned. That’s why different upper arm sizes for the shirts are necessary. Besides, the ANGEL shirt’s built-in electrodes and sensitive connection points must withstand at least 50 washes. \u201cWashing combines several challenges at the same time. Temperature, chemicals, and mechanical effects \u2014 and all of this over a long period,\u201d explains Silke. ANGEL is nevertheless a smart textile shirt that does not need a gentle cycle.<\/p>\n

Going into series production<\/strong><\/h3>\n

There are many and exciting prototypes in the smart textile industry. But it quickly becomes apparent that they cannot yet step into series production because they are too complex to manufacture, not washable, or are simply too expensive. The customers are willing to pay a certain price for a smart textile shirt, but not an infinite amount.<\/p>\n

To offer the ANGEL shirts at a reasonable price, we had to optimize the production processes. \u201cOur electronic components require electrical interconnections in some places and absolute isolation in others. This is a challenge in series production,\u201d says Silke. Smart components can be easily attached to the shirts with thermal presses, but these presses have been used and tested primarily for logo printing. There, it’s all about looks, \u201cwhereas for us, it’s about electrical functionality, everything has to be connected in a stable and process-safe way.\u201d<\/p>\n

So far, everything has worked out, and the first almost 2000 ANGEL shirts have rolled off the production line as planned: \u201cMade in Europe\u201d \u2014 that is important to ADRESYS.<\/p>\n

Pioneering<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Silke contributes the knowledge about smart textiles generated during the development of the ANGEL system to the Textile Committee of Austrian Standards and the Working Group for Smart Textiles at CEN, the European Committee for Standardization. ADRESYS’ PATCH project also aims to bring new knowledge to the outside world. \u201cOur methods are also interesting for other systems,\u201d explains Silke. \u201cHow do you insulate a textile conductor? How do you ensure that electrodes have the best possible skin contact, regardless of the nature of the skin or body hair?\u201d For the medical sector, for example, knowing how to best attach a data processing unit to a smart textile shirt could be well of interest.<\/p>\n

Looking into the future<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The launch of the ANGEL system is scheduled for September, and ideas for new developments are already on the horizon. Long sleeves are mandatory in the high-voltage sector, for example. How and where should the electrodes be attached to such a shirt? And can the ANGEL system also be built into flame-resistant fabric?<\/p>\n

The smart textile sector is only just beginning \u2014 and ANGEL is now also part of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone who wants to create more than one prototype in the smart textile sector will find themselves faced with many challenges. ADRESYS has encountered this and is going into series production with the ANGEL shirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smart-textiles-solutions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adresys.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adresys.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adresys.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adresys.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adresys.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.adresys.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/www.adresys.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adresys.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adresys.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adresys.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adresys.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}