Tag: reflective fabrics

At the beginning of school year: rules for the safety of your child

As the parents are the adults most responsible for the safety of children, the Sibiu policemen recommend them at the beginning of the school year to take into account the following tips:

 

Set the child a safe and secure way to school, from which he will not turn away;

 

Teach him the basic rules for road traffic: to run only on the sidewalk, and in his absence to circulate on the left side of the road; to cross the green light of the traffic light only, and in the absence of traffic light, ensure the right-left-right before crossing the pedestrian crossing; to know the meaning of light signals and road signs;

 

Explain that on their way to school, they do not have to run or descend from the pavement on the road;

 

Make it visible in traffic. Assemble reflective materials on the child’s trolley and reflective fabrics sewn on clothes;

 

When transporting children to the car, use them with the seat belt. carry it too, the power of the example is the easiest and most effective education;

 

Warn them not to respond to suggestions from strangers who offer them transportation by car or various products;

 

When riding a bicycle, wear it with protective helmets and reflective tapes; remind him to cross the road beside the bicycle on the pedestrian crossing;

 

Encourage him/her to seek help from police officers in the street when he/she does not feel safe! Cops are friends of the children!

Smart clothes with reflective material

Sales of technology products incorporated into clothing, called ‘wearable’s, will reach 135 million Euros in 2018 in the world, according to augur international experts who will meet in Barcelona next week.

 

At the meeting, promoted by the Technological Center of Catalonia Eureka, it is planned to analyze the opportunities of this type of technology.

Experts estimate that the opportunities offered by smart and functional clothing and reflective fabrics will drive sales to increase from € 9.7m in 2013 worldwide to only € 5.2m in 2013 – to € 135m in 2018.

 

The Eureka Center has developed or participated, among other projects, in the creation of prototypes of a heated cycling jersey, a body to prevent lumbar injuries or a shirt that measures vital signs and perspiration.

He has also developed clothes that control people’s emotional reactions, a shoe template with sensors that prevents falls, gloves with solar heaters and a bag that lights with solar energy.

 

According to a Eureka spokeswoman, Effect explained that this technology center in Catalonia is a pioneer in the world of electroluminescent technology, which allows lighting and flexible objects without the need to focus with light as it does with current reflective elements. Smart textiles, with a demand that reaches 75% in the case of young people who say they want to use technology incorporated into clothing, “offer significant opportunities thanks to the development in the miniaturization of electronic components,” explained the researcher in design Textile Oscar Temuco, coordinator of the meeting.

 

According to Temuco, “functional fabrics can already be seen, architects and agro textiles, but also in professional clothing or sports applications and in the field of health.” In order for this future to become a reality, according to Temuco, “a great transformation is necessary involving agents from multiple disciplines and levels”, where “innovation must be part of both the production process and the design process or Business models “.

 

The event, organized by the Dutch embassy in collaboration with ADI-FAD, Eindhoven University of Technology and Eureka, will be attended by experts from the textile world, fashion design or textile and experts in ‘wearable’s or technology applied to the textile sector. The director of the Research and Textile Center of Carnet de Mar (Barcelona), Miguel Solar, plans to present functional fabric capacities, and Eureka Business Director Miguel Rey will share the initiative Reimaging Textile, the collaboration network That connects the main agents to place Catalonia as a reference in this new textile revolution.

 

According to the experts, “it is a textile revolution, driven by new reflective materials, production processes and channels, proliferation of data, devices and sensors and hyper connectivity.”