Presented in Upgraded Life Festival 19.5.2015 by Mikko Malmivaara, Clothing+. http://www.upgradedlifefestival.com/

2. Upgraded Life Festival
May 18th 2015
+ Clothing+ textile electronics in home healthcare

3. Clothing+ Key Figures
+ Story begins in 1998
+ Pioneer in combining textiles and electronics in mass production
+ Net sales in 2014 was 10 MEUR (11M USD)
+ Profitable in 2011
+ Some 400 employees globally
+ 3 million textile-integrated sensor products delivered in 2014
+ The future growth potential for textile-integrated electronics is huge
Clothing+ is the largest company developing and
manufacturing textile-integrated sensors in the world

4. Textile
Industry
Electronics
Industry
Clothing+ is a bridge between
two huge industries

5. Position in the value chain: integrator
Clothing+ provides both
development and mass-
production of wearable sensors
Clothing+´ customers are global
apparel and tech giants, who
create the applications for the
end users
Clothing+ has a global network
of materials and technology
suppliers gathered over 15 years

6. Clothing+ Resources
20 experts in product development
+ Mechanical engineering
+ Electronics engineering
+ Textile engineering
+ Design
+ Testing
+ Prototyping
+ Material sourcing
+ Quality control

7. Clothing+ Resources
Dedicated electrotextiles mass-
production environment
Optimal and versatile assembly
technologies
+ Laser cutting, three different lamination
technologies, ultrasonic welding,
dispensing, screen printed electronics,
electrical testing, machine vision, etc.
3 million textile integrated sensor
products delivered in 2014

8. Clothing+ Sensor Clothes
in Mass-Production
HISTORY
+ PureLime sports bra, 2010
+ Adidas MiCoach Elite Team, 2012
+ Under Armour E39, 2013
+ Lululemon All* Sports HRM bra, 2013
2014
+ Mbody EMG Shorts
+ Berlei Podium HRM Bra
+ Shock Absorber Run HRM Bra
+ Kalenji HRM Sports Top
+ Salomon Movesense HRM Bra + Tee
+ OMSignal + Ralph Lauren shirts

9. Clothing+ makes about 75 % of the
world’s textile heart rate sensor
straps for a clientele including
Garmin, Suunto, Adidas, Samsung,
TomTom, Under Armour, Timex
and Sigma Sport.

10. + Textiles are natural to put on and comfortable to wear
+ An invisible and easily accepted way to wear sensors
+ Correct sensor placement is solved with carefully designed clothes or accessories
+ Good and natural fit in many places on the body
+ Sensors can be placed strategically on the body
+ Minimizing the movement artefact
+ Required cables can be integrated in the textile
+ Textile-integrated electronics can be worn unobtrusively, even over a long period
of time
+ Miniaturization of electronics/large area to hide batteries and power-harvesting
components
Strengths of Textile-Integrated Wearable Sensors

11. Big Picture
+ Growing interest in personal wellbeing
+ Monitoring the effects of sports, exercise and changes in lifestyle
+ Motivation, comparing results with peers
+ Collecting and sharing interesting personal data
+ We believe that sensing will be the new basic function for all premium sports
wear within the next few years
+ We believe that adding sensors to garments will be one of the main trends in
collecting contextual information about the wearer

12. Healthcare In Transition
+ Public healthcare systems facing ever
increasing costs
+ Ageing population
+ Pressure to decrease visits to doctor
+ Solution: evolve from treatment to
prevention

13. Clothing+ Medical:
Philips Home Health Care
+ A weak heart accumulates water in the
lungs
+ If untreated, can lead to hospitalization
+ Water accumulation trend is measured
with a bio-impedance vest
+ Trend analysis can detect symptoms up
to 10 days before collapse
+ Monitor comfortably and reliably at
home
Great example of long-term home
healthcare with wearable textile sensors

14. + ECG (heart rate, heart rate variability, heart
activity)
+ EEG (brain waves)
+ EMG (muscle activity)
+ Bio-impedance (body composition, lung activity,
dehydration)
+ SCR (skin conductivity, emotions, activity)
+ Accelerometers (motion, postures)
+ Optical sensors (heart rate, blood oxygen level)
+ Inductive/capacitive (heart rate, muscle activity)
+ Temperature
+ Acoustics (joint fatigue, heart rate)
Potential signals to measure
Bryan Clay Olympic Champion
Decathlon (Beijing 2008) is
testing EMG-pants

15. We have been doing this for 17 years and
have learned a lot along the way
We are eager to learn more, let’s talk!

16. Marketing & Sales
mikko.malmivaara@clothingplus.fi
@ClothingPlus
www.clothingplus.fi
Mikko Malmivaara