Global smart fabrics and interactive textiles market is expected to display enormous growth in the forthcoming years. Interactive textiles and smart fabrics are those fabrics or textiles that can act in response to exterior environmental spurs, such as temperature change, moisture, magnetism, pressure, and another stimulus. Numerous textiles can be entrenched with digital components like silver, to improve the required functionalities. The soaring performance and cost-efficacy of interactive textiles and smart fabrics have allowed them to substitute conventional materials and become accepted among various end-users. Smart Fabrics and interactive textile are fabric merchandise possessing the capability to sense and act in response to an exact environment or spur such as light or heat.

The expansion of the worldwide smart fabrics and interactive textiles market is expected to be challenged over the forecast period owing to the soaring cost of smart textile goods. Moreover, reasons such as growing research & development activities for novel smart textile products & advancements in technology are expected to drive the worldwide market for smart fabrics and interactive textiles over the forecast period. Major developments in fibre technologies & material science comprising, conductive thrust-sensing fabrics, nanofibers, and other crossbreed fabrics; expansion of more and more diminutive electronic parts, growing utilization of electronic textiles in the novel cohort of wearable smart products, and hastily expanding functionality represent significant growth drivers over the forecast period.

The industry is expected to benefit enormously from technology advancements related to the incorporation of electronic equipment into textiles & fabrics at the thread level coupled with functionality and performance improvements in incorporated switches, textile sensors and interconnect. Additionally, growing penetration of BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) capable laptops and smartphones, which assists in connecting sensor-based fabric to other technologies. For instance, smart fabrics to the Internet are also fuelling growth in the market.

On the basis of application, the worldwide smart fabric, and interactive textiles market is categorized into medical, industrial, and healthcare, military & defence, retail & consumer, transportation and others. The worldwide smart fabrics and interactive textiles market are expected to lead to the transportation section.

Transportation sector represents the biggest end-use industry for interactive textiles and smart fabrics. Military clothing is one more main end-use industry for smart fabrics sustained by the growing focus on the incorporation of wearable technology that can decrease weight from batteries and cabling used for electronic equipment in military uniforms.

On the basis of the region, the smart fabrics and interactive textiles market can be segregated into Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East & Africa. Europe is expected to dominate the market in terms of revenue over the forecast period owing to the significant presence of end use industries ranging from healthcare, military & defence. The European Union is also granting funds heavily to smart fabrics and interactive textile market which is also fuelling the growth of this market in Europe. Europe is followed by North America owing to increasing utilization of smart fabrics and textiles by the variety of industries over the forecast period, in terms of revenue generation. Asia Pacific is expected to grow rapidly over the forecast period owing to the existence of huge scale fabrics and textile industries coupled with thriving healthcare and medical industry.

Some of the key players in the smart fabrics and interactive textiles market are E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company, Intelligent Clothing Ltd, International Fashion Machines Inc, Wear AG, Kimberly-Clark Health Care, Milliken & Company, Outlast Technologies LLC, Royal Philips Electronics N.V, Textronics Inc and Marktek Inc.