Functional / E-Fabric Sensors and Printed, Flexible, Stretchable Sensors and Sensor-Based Systems: New Tools for the Product Designers’ Tool Kit Driving Innovation for Emerging IoT and Wearable Applications

Session details:

The availability of sensors that can conveniently conform in shape to their imposed working environment has existed for quite some time with the earliest being for aerospace applications.  Recently, there has been exponential growth in the field of flexible, printed, stretchable (PFS) and functional fabric (FF)a.k.a. e-textiles driven by applications including physiological/activity monitoring in wearables for e-Health, sports/recreational and warfighters and the Internet of Things (IoT).

The six speakers including a keynote, who represent the international “who’s who” in this topical area from a commercial, academic and military perspective, will present several of the more interesting technologies, their current and future applications and products that they enable.  The focus of this year’s session topic will be FF/ET addressing its projected exponential CAGR of greater than 20% from 2025-2032 and reaching $32 Billion by 2032.

Barriers to and opportunities for the successful commercialization and democratization of these sensors to enable emerging applications and recommended strategies for market success and monetization will be presented.