Infusing Ordinary Materials
with Extraordinary Powers
We are world-leading experts in non-intrusive smart textile sensing technology - helping businesses revolutionise the products of today or build the products of tomorrow.
“The Textile is the Sensor”™
Footfalls & Heartbeats’ Patented Smart Textiles
Look and Comfort
The feel and comfort of our smart textiles makes them invisible to the user.
Strength and Lifetime
Durable and washable so they can last the lifetime of a regular textile.
Total Customisation
They can be placed anywhere within a fabric, and can conform to any shape or surface.
Collaborate with Us: Get access to our industry leading patented technology!
Understand & Concept
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Work together to understand your problem and create a cutting-edge proof of concept that brings your vision to life.
Prototype & Develop
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Transform the proof of concept into a fully functioning prototype before developing it into a market-ready product!
Launch & Grow
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Launch and grow your revolutionary product in to a market leader!
FAQs
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Smart textiles (sometimes incorrectly referred to as e-textiles) are any fabrics capable of sensing a change in its environment. This could be as simple as how it responds to a person’s movement, all the way to measuring stress going through a wind turbine blade.
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It depends on your definition. Nowadays, ‘wearables’ refer to an electronic device or sensor, packaged to be worn, such as smart watches. We are different. Our sensors contain no electronic components and are engineered as part of the fabric meaning they’re 100% textile.
This means our sensors contain none of the drawbacks of traditional wearables – if it’s knittable, our technology can be integrated.
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Nope! Our sensors can be designed to feel ‘invisible’. Being knitted from customisable yarns means our sensors, knitted concurrently with the product, have the look and feel of a whatever textile they’re in.
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They’re limitless.
But we’ve worked on conventional products and textiles such as socks, mattresses, seats, and clothing to more industrial applications such as for use in wind turbine blades and trains (few people know carbon fibre is actually knitted!).
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Ours are! Being 100% textile, they can be washed like any other fabric or piece of clothing.
So far, we’ve tested a range of our sensors up to 50 washes, with them still going strong.
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If you have an existing product that you’re looking to enhance with our technology, or if you have a product idea you need help developing, we’re here to help.
Contact us today to find out more.
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We are the brainchild of our founder, Simon McMaster – a smart textiles company with patented sensor designs which ensure our sensors are at the forefront of what’s possible. Making custom products or integrating our tech into existing products to help businesses change the world, we focus on doing good in the work we carry out.
“We’re indebted to Footfalls”
“Footfalls is a key development partner of Milbotix. We’ve worked with Simon and his team since 2022 to develop our product SmartSocks® through several design iterations.
We’re indebted to Footfalls for their help, and we couldn’t have our product without their support. We look forward to strengthening our relationship with Simon and his team over the coming months as we work to deliver on an ambitious product roadmap.”
Our Expertise
What else do we offer?
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Our extensive flat bed knitting machine experience, coupled with our on-sight Stoll machine makes design and prototyping almost instantaneous
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With a Santoni X machine on-sight our ability to knit and prototype smart socks and shoes is truly unrivaled
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Need quick knit prototyping? Smart or regular textiles, our years of textile design experience mean we can quickly and easily solve your textile design needs!
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Data is no good without the ability to analyse it! We are able to process and analyse the data from any smart textile we design and produce!
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We have everything you need to go from raw data to insights and feedback that can change lives via the apps and software your customers want!
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All of our electronics units are designed in-house, meaning we can make everything bespoke to your needs! Additionally any cases or extra’s can also be made on our on-site 3D printer!
