I-Corps: Advanced Integration Methods for Garment-based Wearable Technologies

I-Corps：基于服装的可穿戴技术的高级集成方法

• 批准号: 1650797
• 负责人: Jesse Jur
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-01 至 2017-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1650797&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Advanced; Integration; Methods; Garment

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is to understand product application opportunities in the evolving textile electronics industry. Textile electronics is a field which requires that new technologies adoption meets the stringent cost and comfort requirements of the textiles industry, while maintaining the rigid device performance metrics of the electronics industry. The opportunity exists through this I-Corps project to understand the tradeoffs between a transformative process technology with the ability to form cost effective, customized textile electronics products in fitness/wellness, health/medical, industrial/military, and fashion/infotainment markets.This I-Corps project will explore the market potential for a transformative electronic interconnect technology applicable to the fabrication of low-cost garment-based wearable devices. The technology focused upon in this work allows for the ability to retro-fit garments with electronics by simple heat iron-on strategy, similar to placement of a heat laminated tag or manufacturer logo. This technology is an alternative to conductive yarn and bulky wires used currently in textile electronics, materials which limit scale-up of wearables to small quantities and results in a bulky garment that is uncomfortable to the wearer. This iron-on technology allows for the ability to connect multiple devices on a garment in a low cost, customizable way and enables a strategic expansion of the textile electronics product landscape. This I-Corps project seeks to understand the opportunities for the technology through a voice-of-customer analysis of the key stakeholders in the textile electronics industry.

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是了解不断发展的纺织电子工业中的产品应用机会。纺织电子是一个要求采用新技术满足纺织工业严格的成本和舒适性要求，同时保持电子工业严格的设备性能指标的领域。通过I-Corps项目，有机会了解变革过程技术与在健身/健康、健康/医疗、工业/军事和时尚/信息娱乐市场中形成具有成本效益的定制纺织电子产品的能力之间的权衡。这个I-Corps项目将探索一种变革性电子互连技术的市场潜力，该技术适用于制造低成本的基于服装的可穿戴设备。这项工作所关注的技术允许通过简单的加热熨烫策略来改造电子设备，类似于放置热层压标签或制造商标志。这项技术是目前纺织电子产品中使用的导电纱线和笨重电线的替代品，这些材料限制了可穿戴设备的批量扩大，并导致笨重的衣服对穿着者来说不舒服。这种熨烫技术允许以低成本，可定制的方式连接服装上的多个设备，并使纺织电子产品领域的战略扩张成为可能。这个I-Corps项目旨在通过对纺织电子行业主要利益相关者的客户声音分析来了解这项技术的机会。