Advanced manufacturing, smart textiles and digitalisation
R&D OF SMART TEXTILE-BASED SENSORISED SMART STRUCTURES FOR SMART CITIES
CITISENS
Motivation
Smart City incorporate information technologies to interconnect the different elements they contain to enhance infrastructures, thereby improving the quality of life of the citizens who live there and making them active participants. Among the main technologies and aspects that make up the smart city concept are waste management, transport management, sustainable energy generation, public safety, health management and city lighting.
It is estimated that, in the coming years, smart cities market will continue to grow and even double the figure reached in 2020. This upward trend makes CITISENS a project that will cover many sectors and encompasses a multitude of end applications that can be integrated into cities, so that the results obtained can reach a large number of companies.
Objectives
• Research and development of sensorised textile-based smart structures for Smart Cities and urban mobility.
• Develop technologies applicable to textile or textile-based structures that allow cities to move towards data-driven models in a fast, safe and economical way.
• Develop textiles in combination with other composite materials capable of monitoring the state of the part from a structural point of view.
• Develop textile structures capable of monitoring different parameters and develop actuators that can be integrated into textile materials to improve safety, comfort, quality of life and the efficiency of services.
Expected results
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To design and develop textile-based composite solutions with the capacity to monitor in real time the state of Smart City components and mobility applications with the aim of improving their strength by measuring stresses.
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To design and develop textile solutions capable of monitoring environmental parameters.
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To design and develop textile-based solutions for energy harvesting using fabrics, embroidery technology and flexible photovoltaics for use in outdoor applications.
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To design and integrate thermoformed intelligent elements in composite materials such as heating and lighting elements.
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To scale-up the technologies investigated and analyse the economic viability at industrial level.
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To transfer embroidery and thermoforming technologies to companies in different sectors such as Smart Cities, mobility and transport, leisure and sport.
Grant number: IMDEEA/2022/15
Amount: —–
Entity: IVACE
Period of execution: May 2022 – June 2023
Status: In progress
This project is funded by the Conselleria d’Economia Sostenible, Sectors Productius, Comerç i Treball de la Generalitat Valenciana, through IVACE, and is co funded by ERDF from the European Commission within the framework of the Operational Programme FEDER for the Comunitat Valenciana 2021-2027.
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R&D AREAS
New high-performance functionalised materials
Circular economy and sustainability
Advanced manufacturing, smart textiles and digitalisation
High value-added solutions for strategic markets
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