Democratizing the Toolkit for E-textile System Integrators

Due to the lack of standardization for components often used in the development of soft systems, the system integration design role often requires a complex set of material decisions to be made, often with a lack of performance data, both in the textile and electrical domains. This results in a significantly longer time from idea to prototype to production product, and a commensurately heavier investment than the typical electronic system requires. To open the design space to soft systems, AFFOA is developing a library of fully tested components to augment the datasheets provided by the manufacturers, along with combining system integration techniques to these components to test their in-device performance.