Austria Textile Fiber As Communication Antenna

Seib J Dov, Austria R & D company

The company's lab and the Austria Institute of technology jointly released the latest details of the new near field communication technology. They can complete special combination installation in the process of producing textiles.

Stefan Cecil, the company's scientist, told the near field communication technology media that fabrics need to use standard near field communication technology. The principle is through contact RFID technology, which is made up of special fiber lines for connecting antennas.

This antenna is integrated into the fabric production process, that is, weave into the fabric.

Although near-field communication chips need to be manually connected, Austria scientists expect this link to be automated in the future.

The textile fiber communication technology developed by the company can be applied to any fabric and can store information on fabrics. "

It also has potential uses, that is, to store information on finished clothing related to fabrics.

This fabric accessory can also be linked to the manufacturer's website. It can even be promoted by special means.

The development of new communication textile fibers needs to overcome two problems. One is whether it will cause too close to the human body. Of course, it does not exist at present. The second is how to design an appendage so that it can be read, because the clothing worn by the human body can be bent, and some gadgets that must be attached to clothes need to be considered separately.

They should be flexible, comfortable and practical, and they must be able to withstand cleaning and ironing.

The researchers put the small equipment in the washing machine (60 degrees) for washing test, dehydration test and ironing test.

After that, they found that although a series of tests failed, they could not affect any communication function of textiles.

The company has also carried out other more extensive tests, and they found that these devices will affect communication distance after bending, but can be changed.

The company has emphasized that the next step is to further test how to make this communication garment more in line with human needs.

The technology will be exclusively licensed to specific customer applications or authorized to different application domains of many non professional customers, so as to further plan how to conduct in-depth and extensive research and development based on individual contracts and interested companies.