The European Smart Textiles Accelerator (SmartX) is a 3-year program, supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation plan.
El European Smart Textiles Accelerator (SmartX) It is a 3-year program (2019-2022) and a total budget of 2,4 million euros, which aims to promote promising prototypes that reach the market more quickly. This project is supported by the research and innovation plan 2020 Horizon of the European Union
SmartX aims to drive smart textile innovation to develop a smart textile manufacturing value chain end-to-end in Europe and help push promising prototypes faster to market and at reasonable prices. The project promotes new industrial value chains composed of textile manufacturers, microelectronics/nanoelectronics, integrators, IoT (Internet of Things) data processing specialists, technology providers, distributors and end users.
SmartX drives innovation in product development close to commercial launch in 3 sectors: Protection, Sports, Health and Wellbeing.
The program has already organized three funding calls to support up to 40 projects with a total budget of 2,4 million euros. 25 individual or consortium projects have finally been selected with a direct impact on more than 40 companies.
Seat Mat, of the Catalan company, Sensing Tex, is a mat designed and designed for the prevention of pressure ulcers in long-term wheelchair users. It allows, in real time, to obtain postural analysis data to detect critical points and recommend or correct position changes.
Marina Racewear: Undershirt for motor Racing drivers. Spin off of the company, Navy Textile, presents the development of an undershirt with intelligent and flame-retardant features for motorsport drivers. Developed by the Barcelona Spin off, Marina Racewear , consists of the development of biometric sensors, inserted in the shirt of car drivers that provide data in real time or delayed in an app, on the behavior of the driver's body during the race to improve the driver's performance or detect possible anomalies accident risk.
SmartX provides funded projects with coaching and monitoring by experts throughout the entire process, from project generation to the exploration of results.
Smartx provides a collaborative web-based platform for European smart textile companies and experts with a series of interactive and self-service tools. Building a strong, sustainable community is the underlying long-term objective of the Programme, to foster interaction and collaboration within the European smart textile industry. A series of workshops, workshops and specific conferences have been carried out throughout the EU that allow professionals to obtain and share advanced knowledge on different topics and cutting-edge technological solutions, all of them focused on Smart textiles.
The SmartX consortium is made up of thirteen European partners: Textile ETP (Belgium), Euramaterials (France), Citta Studi Spa (Italia) Högskolan I Boras (Sweden), TEXFOR (Spain), CITEVE (Portugal), DSP Valley (Belgium), CITC EuraRFID (France), Deutsche Institute Für Textile (Germany), CENTEXBEL (Belgium), Steinbeis Innovation (Germany), French Institute of Fashion (France), sourcebook (Germany).
SmartX drives smart textile innovation to develop an end-to-end smart textile manufacturing value chain in Europe and will help bring promising prototypes to market more quickly.
