This document discusses next generation energy harvesting fabrics. It introduces smart textiles and intelligent textiles, which are textile structures that can sense and react to environmental conditions through new technologies and techniques. Examples are given of clothes that can monitor pollution levels and respond to wind. The document explains that smart textiles are powered through integrated devices, batteries, or energy harvesting directly from the environment through kinetic or thermal energy without needing recharging. References are provided on energy harvesting materials for smart fabrics and intelligent textiles.

1. Next generation of fabrics.
(Energy harvesting fabrics)
Background for energy harvesting
fabrics.
By - Rumanthika Perera

2. Content
 Introduction.
 Reference.

3. Introduction.
Smart textiles / intelligent textiles.
• Special textile structures.
• Highly engineered with new technology
and techniques.
• Use to produce new fashions.
• Can sense and react /respond to
environmental conditions.

4. Smart textiles / intelligent textiles.
Smart textiles –
Textile structures which can sense the
environmental conditions or stimuli.
Intelligent textiles –
Textile structures can sense and respond to
environmental conditions.

5. Intelligent Textiles.
Examples
• Climate dress with a system to monitor
nearby air pollution levels.
• Pollution-Monitoring Fashion monitors.
• Wind-Sensitive Light-Up Dress

6.  Smart textiles / intelligent clothing’s made by
Integrating electronic functions into fabrics.
- Printing conductive tracks into fabric.
- Conductive yarns woven into fabric.
 Power supply to Smart textiles / intelligent
clothing’s.
- Integrated device.
- Conventional connection(battery).
- Energy harvesting.

7. Energy harvesting.
 Transfer energy present in environment into
electricity.
 Not require to
recharge , replace or stored in a battery.
Energy harvesting sources.
- Kinetic energy.
- Thermal energy.

8. References.
• Energy Harvesting Materials for Smart Fabrics and
Interactive Textiles. (2010 , October 1st ). Retrieved
December 07, 2013, from Electronics and Computer
Science (ECS):
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/research/projects/799
• Smart Fabrics - Intelligent Textiles. ( 2011, December
11). Retrieved December 06, 2013, from tech bells:
http://techbells.blogspot.com/2011/12/smart-fabricsintelligent-textiles.html

9. Thank You.

10. Thank You.