The MyWear project will be presented at the ICE 2014 conference during a workshop entitled: Embedded sensors, smart and innovative services for personalised products. Join us for the workshop on Monday 23 June, from 14.00 to 15.30. The full ICE Conference takes place on 23-24-25 June 2014, in Bergamo, an inspiring town in the middle of [...]

ADDFactor project aims at developing an innovative customised shoe manufacturing framework based on the creation of small-local-agile manufacturing units – mini-factories - enabling the distribution at local (mini-factory@retailer) and district scale (mini-factory@area) of technologically advanced fabrication operations. Customization of the shoe is addressed considering functional, bio-medical and safety-wellness related aspects (prevent injuries restoring optimal motion); so [...]

Chair: Prof. Luca Canetta Co-chair: Rosanna Fornasiero Short description: Today consumer goods like clothing, footwear, sportwear have the untapped potential to escape from being traditional products by mean of innovative services like sensing the status of customer well-being, functional materiasl etc to offer safe and healthy conditions for applications like work and sport . This paper [...]

The MyWear project on customised green, safe and healthy consumer products has achieved an important intermediate deadline; it has designed and implemented the Data Integration Platform (DIP). Download the MyWear_IntegrationPlatform flyer to have a brief overview. The DIP offers the following functionalities: Collect data from the scanning Monitor systems Store the data according to the human body data model and represent [...]

MyWear Newsletter May2013

CeBIT is the world’s largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments. The key target groups are users from industry, the wholesale/retail sector, skilled trades, banks, the services sector, government agencies, science and all users passionate about technology. CeBIT offers an international platform for comparing notes on current industry trends, [...]

The WP6 value-adding services has started with T6.1, to translate main Consumer Requirements into well-defined Service Requirements. Starting from the collection of outcomes of other tasks e.g. results achieved in WP1 and identified validation scenarios described in D1.3., T6.1 performed an integrated in-depth analysis and evaluation of target group requirements according to the context of use, [...]

MyWear Newsletter April2013

The iTechtStyle Forum focused in stimulating networking among players from the technical and fashion textiles and clothing and also between those and other players belonging to complementary application sectors, always following a spirit of bringing together ideas, potential investors and stakeholders. The iTechtStyle Forum put all efforts in order to “Make it happen” by helping [...]

The image shown right was contributed by Henrik Søgaard (Ohmatex) to illustrate the activities of WP3: Textile Intrinsic communication layer of which Henrik Søgaard is WP-leader. The image depicts the half of a safety shoe (contributed by Base Protection) to which the stethoscope was added to illustrate one of the project goals of MY-WEAR; collecting real [...]

MyWear Newsletter March2013

By: Franco Cavani, Micaela Groppelli & Fred