Textile Touch PadGive your clothes the fourth sense

Italian Institute of Technology

Executive Summary

Management Team

Market wishes

Our solution: technology

Our application: textile touch pad

Competitors

Business Idea

Financing

Management Team @ IIT

Marco Maggiali, PhDInventor

Prof. Bruno BoninoElectronic designer

Lorenzo De Michieli, PhDTechnology Transfer

Touch Sensitive Surfaces

Increasing demand of surfaces capable of measuring the contact which is exerted by an object or a human being on them

At present, the reference market is the SPORTWEAR.Large demand of wearable controllers for cheap and wearable electronic devices related to common or extreme sport activities, such as speedometers, mp3 players, heartbeat ratio measuring devices, barometers, mobile phones, etc

Primarily, the sensitive surface can be used as a control surface which is capable of recognizing gestures when it is touched

1. Conformability: flexible, applicable to arbitrarily curved surfaces

2. Smart: recognize arbitrary gestures

3. Installation space: Should be kept to a minimum

4. Area coverage: Should be as large as possible

5. Power consumption: low

6. High resolution: very accurate

7. Manufacturability: easy to manufacture

What the market wishes

Our solution comes from Humanoid Robotics

Our Technology: the ‘Artificial Skin’

Flexible

Thin

As large as you want

Reliable

High resolution

Easy to produce

Applications, the market

Sportswear

Professional Suits

Automotive

Bags

Shoes

Medical devices

Partnership with O-Range Srl - designer company:Product development, marketing, sales

Our Product: the Textile Touch Pad

Applications of the Textile Touch Pad

Textile Touch Pad, 1st prototype

Other Possible Applications 1/5

Other Possible Applications 2/5

Other Possible Applications 3/5

Other Possible Applications 4/5

Other Possible Applications 5/5

Competitors 1/3

Competitors 2/3

Competitors 3/3

features  IIT textile

pad controller

ElekTex, Smart

textile, Qio System

Fibretroni, Amp'd

Keypad

thickness   X X  

flexibility   X X  

Inclusion inside the jacket, bag, backpack

seam X X X

gluing X    

Waterproof   X X  

Use in extreme condition (temperature, humidity, pressure)

  X    

Long life   X X X

Novelty and originality

  XXX X  

Comparison Table

Our (early stage) Business Idea

Spin Off Companyfrom IIT

IITowns the technology => exclusive license

O-Range Srl (partnership)is exploring the market, is developing the product,works with the big players

Personnel from IITmaster the technology

To become the market leader in Textile Touch Pad control systems

An (early stage) market analysisSportswear only

Size of the global market (units of wearable controllers): 11M units in 2012

Price of the Textile Touch Pad: about 8 Euros

Our Customers will be sportswear manufacturers

Goal: 10% of the market in 3 years => 8.8M Euros in 2012

Approx market value: 110 M Euros in 2012

Actual Phase: financing R&D (public/internal funding)

We need 150K Euros1 year R&D

80K Euros Equipment (laser cutting machine)

60K Euros R&D

10K Euros final engineering

THEN we will be able to evaluate the final business model/plan and the need for Venture Capitals to start the Spin Off Company

Conclusions

Platform Technology

Solid protection of the IPR

Gap between our and competitor’s solutions

Large Market

Spin Off within 18 months

Thanks!

Italian Institute of Technology