Textile Integrated Printed Electronics (Printed Electronics Europe 2014)

• Textiles interpreted sensors

• Textiles are demanding and interesting environment for electronics

• Technical options to integrate electronics into textiles

Akseli Reho is the founder and CEO of the Finnish wearable sensor pioneer Clothing Plus. With a M.Sc. degree in telecommunications, Mr. Reho has been an active member in the wearables community since 1998 and his work has been instrumental in bridging the gap between electronics and textiles in manufacturing. Under his direction Clothing+ has been mass-producing millions of textile-integrated wearable sensors since 2002 and continues to make an ever greater impact on the sports and medical markets.

Clothing Plus is the world's largest developer and manufacturer of textile-integrated biometric sensors. With more than 15 years of experience in wearable technology and supplying the key global brands in sports and medical business with first class body monitoring sensors, Clothing+ is strengthening its position as the pioneering expert in textile wearables. As the creator of the world's first textile heart rate sensor strap for Polar in 2002, Clothing+ now seeks to reinvent and revolutionize monitoring the human being through even better and more fine-tuned products and manufacturing processes and adding key technology partners to its network. Clothing+ supplies some 75% of the world's textile heart rate sensor products and have the technology to measure any biosignals. Clothing+ is launching several more sensor-equipped products with a number of global brands in 2014.