Sensors Expo 2017

Printed, Flexible, Stretchable and Functional Fabric Sensors and Systems: Technologies and Applications for Wearable and IoT Applications

27 Jun 17
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Pre-Conference Symposium

Speaker(s): Roger Grace, Founder & President, Roger Grace Associates; Sywert Brongersma, Sr. Principal Researcher, imec; Susana Cardoso de Freitas, Group Leader, INESC Microsystems and Nanotechnologies (Portugal); Rob Podoloff, Chief Technology Officer, Tekscan; Miguel Ridao Granado, CEO, Sensing Tex; Jae Son, President and CEO, Pressure Profile Systems, Inc.; Ahmed Busnaina, Director of the NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing, Northeastern University; John Volakis, Chope Chair Professor, Ohio State University; Anwar Mohammed, Senior Director, Flextronics; Radislav Potyrailo, Principal Scientist, GE Global Research; Binu Baby Narakathu, Research Associate, Center for Advanced Smart Sensors and Structures (CASSS), Western Michigan University; Alper Bozkurt, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University; Carlo Guareschi, VP Business Development, ISORG; Christine Kallmayer, Group Leader, Fraunhofer IZM; Jani Mantyjarvi, Dr, Docent, VTT

The availability of sensors that can take the shape of their imposed working environment has existed for quite some time with the earliest being for aerospace applications.  Most recently, there has been an exponential growth in the field of flexible, printed and organic large-area electronics and sensors driven by applications including wearables, e-Health  and the Internet of Things (IoT). These new electronics and sensors are fabricated on flexible plastic substrates or are printed/woven into fabrics, which offer advantages such as mechanical flexibility, shape conformity, light weight and low profile. The creation of these “non-classical” platforms is enabled by low cost high-speed manufacturing of devices over large areas using various technologies including Roll-to-Roll production.    The extensive list of 12 speakers, who represent the international “who’s who” in this topical area, will present several of the more interesting printed/flexible/stretchable and functional fabric sensor technologies and their applications currently under development and in production in the commercial sector as well those under development in the leading research universities and research labs around the world.   In addition to these sensors, we will address the challenges of their integration with other functional element of basic Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable applications.   We will also address the manufacturing issues to create these heterogeneous and hybrid solutions from both a batch mode and continuous process.  Finally, barriers to the successful commercialization of these sensors and recommended strategies for market success will be presented.  Topics Include: Development and Applications of Novel Flexible Sensors and Electronics Massood Atashbar et al., Western Michigan University Healthy Productive Lives: Next Generation Flexible Low Power Sensing Solutions Sywert Brongersma, IMEC Holst (The Netherlands) Printing of Nano and Microscale Electronics and Sensors