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Intelligent textiles in relation to textile services
Intelligent textiles were first designed in the late 1990s. The first prototypes mainly aimed to determine whether the health of the textile wearer was threatened. The applications were medical, sports, and military. Since protective clothing, and more generally, personal protection equipment, was designated with Europe as a lead market (market in which Europe has a…
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Intelligent textiles. No longer does this concept belong to a distant future, according to Prof. Dr. Ir. Lieva van Langenhove from the Department of Textiles at the University of Gent, Belgium. “It’s going to be a part of our lives. The only question is who is going to take the risk to invest.” Professor Van…