Why Are More And More Companies Involved In The Field Of Smart Clothing?

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The list of Companies in the field is getting longer and longer.

According to the world clothing and shoe net, Japanese chemical manufacturer Asahi Asahi announced that it will launch the smart clothing that will be able to get human body information on the next summer.

To set this goal, Asahi Asahi holds two cards, namely, the conductive fiber products developed by ourselves and the advantages of ZOLL, an American subsidiary, in the field of medical equipment. The latter mainly produces emergency ambulance equipment such as lifejacket type automatic external defibrillator.

Zor is currently developing the flexible conductive fiber "Roboden", which is developed by Asahi Asahi, for the manufacture of life vest, and the technology of automatic external defibrillator based on human body information such as electrocardiogram.

As a result, the smart clothing launched by Asahi Asahi is more suitable for first aid and disease management.

Focusing on health and medical care is the most important research and development direction and function setting of smart clothing.

Behind Japan's investment in smart clothing is Japan's domestic market.

The market is saturated, and major fiber manufacturers are looking for new sources of revenue. Smart clothing is locked into a new market that can be nurtured.

According to Data Resource, the size of the smart clothing market is 10 billion yen in 2015, and the market will expand to about 400 billion yen in 2021.

According to Gao Dena, an information technology consulting firm (Gartner), shipments of smart clothing in 2013 and 2014 are almost zero.

In addition to Asahi Asahi, Japanese chemical materials enterprises such as Dongli, Japanese fiber enterprises, Kurashiki and Dongyang spinning are also involved.

At present, Dongli is the foremost.

Dongli and communications operator NTT have developed a new fiber material "hitoe" which can read weak electrical signals on the human body, which can monitor human heart rate for 24 hours.

The service provided by this kind of fiber has been listed.

Companies need to measure factory and hospital sales of workers at high temperatures.

The intelligent clothing of Kurashiki and Dongyang textile is still in the experimental stage.

The former has been working with pportation companies in May to carry out verification tests on heatstroke prevention products.

Similar to the latter, the latter developed a thin film product, COCOMI (Xin Mei), which is made of conductive materials and resins, and is also doing a functional test to prevent bus and truck drivers from dozing.

In fact, the emergence of smart clothing is closely related to the enhancement of consumers' awareness of healthy sports.

Over the past few years, sports brands have launched smart clothing that monitors health data such as heart rate, blood pressure, movement trajectory and muscle activation.

Nike has launched Nike+ intelligent equipment very early, and Adidas's miCoach has also been applied to professional football training.

Kevin Plank, founder of Under Armour, has made clear that the company's future two directions include smart sports apparel for high-end users, as well as fitness information and data platform for ordinary consumers.

In the 2014 us open, Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren, also unveiled its first smart wearable device, The Polo Tech Shirt.

The fabric is made of silver thread with a Bluetooth sensor, which can sense the heartbeat of the user, calculate its movement and calories consumption, and synchronize it to the iOS system.

A year later, the brand began to mass produce The Polo Tech Shirt, priced at up to $295, mainly for high-end sports enthusiasts.

Ralph Lauren's smart sportswear The Polo Tech Shirt

Businesses also set the direction of smart clothing research and development in addition to health care and sports.

Last summer, Google and Levi's, the clothing brand (Levi's) jointly created a smart cowboy jacket, which enables call play, intelligent navigation and other functions.

Google and Levi's create smart jacket, cuff button to answer the phone.

The comfort of fabrics, the sustainability of functions, the repeated cleaning of clothes, and the price of "close to the people" are the key factors affecting the popularity of smart clothing.

We have reason to believe that with the development of more and more relevant Domain company, the development speed of smart clothing will be effectively promoted.

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