Smart Personal Protective Equipment… Really?
We all have a fairly simple image of personal protective equipment. A hard hat, gloves, a high-visibility jacket. Equipment designed to protect, support and keep people safe. For a long time, that was enough. The problem is that working environments have changed. Infrastructure has become more complex, risks have become less visible and working practices […]
A smart textile is good. Knowing how to integrate it is better.
When we talk about smart textiles, we often talk about functionalities; lighting, conductivity, interaction, sensing, …But a connected textile only becomes truly useful when it is designed as a tool integrated into an application, not as a layer of technology added afterwards. Integration means designing differently. Integrating a smart textile is not simply about embedding […]