Smart Textile Technology

Where Electronics
Meet Textile

We automate the connection of PCBs to textile — enabling mass production of smart garments, medical wearables, and industrial sensing fabrics.

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Smart textile with PCBs — Intelectronics
Automated PCB-to-Textile Connection
Services

Two Services,
One Complete Solution

From initial design through to finished product, we cover the full smart textile production pipeline.

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Design for Automatic Population

We engineer PCBs and garment structures that are purpose-built for automated assembly. Our design process ensures electronics and textile are compatible at every level — materials, layout, and manufacturing.

  • Textile-compatible PCB layout & materials
  • Garment pattern design with integrated routing
  • DFM review and validation before production
  • Prototype and iteration support
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Automatic Smart Textile Production

Our proprietary automated production line connects PCBs to textile with precision and repeatability. We handle the full cycle from incoming components to finished smart textile, at any scale.

  • Automated PCB placement and connection
  • Inline quality control and inspection
  • Scalable from prototype to mass production
  • End-to-end manufacturing management
  • Automated silicone encapsulation In development
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Applications

Where Smart Textiles
Are Changing Industries

Electronic textiles are moving from research labs into everyday products. The process stays the same across sectors; only the sensor and the garment change.

Person checking their pulse on a smartwatch

Medical Wearables

Continuous ECG, respiration, and biometric monitoring in comfortable, washable garments. Ideal for patient monitoring, rehabilitation, and remote diagnostics.

  • ECG
  • Respiration
  • Rehabilitation
Cyclists in sportswear riding along a road

Sports & Performance

Real-time muscle activity, posture, and motion capture embedded directly in sportswear. Used by athletes, physiotherapists, and sports scientists.

  • Muscle activity
  • Posture
  • Motion capture
Construction worker in a hard hat and high-visibility vest building a wall

Protective & Safety Workwear

Smart PPE that monitors vital signs, environmental hazards, and worker location. Enhances safety in construction, firefighting, and industrial environments.

  • Vital signs
  • Hazard detection
  • Lone-worker safety
Car dashboard and windscreen view of a mountain road

Automotive Interiors

Occupancy, pressure, and touch sensing in seat covers, steering wheels, and interior trim, where the electronics must survive vibration, heat, and years of use.

  • Occupancy
  • Pressure
  • Touch
Person in a neon-yellow jacket and trousers lit by coloured light

Fashion & Wearable Tech

Interactive garments with embedded lighting, haptic feedback, or environmental sensing. From high fashion to consumer electronics integration.

  • Lighting
  • Haptics
  • Environmental sensing
Person in a camouflage uniform seated with hands clasped

Military & Defence

Soldier monitoring systems, body-worn communications, and mission-critical sensing woven into uniforms. Lightweight, durable, and field-ready.

  • Soldier monitoring
  • Body-worn comms
  • Field-ready
Steel bridge spanning a river

Industrial Sensing

Structural health monitoring, pressure mapping, and environmental sensing in flexible substrates for aerospace and civil engineering.

  • Structural health
  • Pressure mapping
  • Environmental

Ribbon & technical-textile makers

You make conductive ribbon or technical narrow fabrics and want to offer them with electronics attached. Our machine runs on the ribbon you already produce.

Smart-garment integrators

You build products for medical, sports, workwear, automotive or defence customers and need a reliable, repeatable way to attach sensors to textile.

Don't see your sector?

The process is the same wherever a sensor has to be attached to textile. Tell us about your product and we will show you what a demo sample could look like.

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Service 01

Design for Automatic Population

Smart textile manufacturing fails at the design stage more often than anywhere else. We solve this by building design and manufacturability in parallel from day one.

Our engineers collaborate with your team to develop PCBs and garment constructions that are fully compatible with automated assembly. This means selecting the right substrate materials, defining reliable electrical pathways through the textile, and designing PCB footprints that survive repeated flexing, washing, and wear.

The result is a design package that goes straight to production without costly redesigns.

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PCB Design

Miniaturised, flexible-compatible PCBs with optimised pad geometry for automated placement.

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Garment Engineering

Pattern and construction designed around electronics routing and production requirements.

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Validation

Prototype builds and test cycles to verify performance before committing to production.

Service 02

Automatic Smart Textile Production

Our automated production system connects PCBs to textile substrates with the precision and repeatability needed for reliable, scalable manufacturing.

Unlike manual assembly — which is slow, inconsistent, and expensive — our process uses machine vision and precision automation to place and connect each PCB accurately, every time. Built-in quality control catches defects at the source, not at the end of the line.

Whether you need a short prototype run or high-volume production, the same process delivers the same result.

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Automated Assembly

Machine vision guided placement and connection of PCBs onto textile substrates.

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Inline QC

Automated inspection at each stage ensures defects are caught and corrected immediately.

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Scalable Volume

From 10 to 10,000+ units, the same automated process with consistent output quality.

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Automated Encapsulation In development

One-shot silicone sealing of the finished sensor, aligned by camera and logged for every unit. See how the machine works.

The e-Ribbon Machine

From Bare PCB to
Finished Smart Ribbon

Most smart-textile prototypes are still assembled by hand. Our machine attaches electronics to standard conductive ribbon automatically, and checks the result.

  1. 01

    Place

    Camera-guided pick-and-place sets each PCB on the ribbon. Camera, gantry, and tools share one calibration, with about 0.03 mm residual.

  2. 02

    Solder

    Each PCB is joined to the ribbon with a real soldered connection. You keep using ordinary conductive tape, with no embroidery or laminate needed.

  3. 03

    Inspect

    Vision checks each placement and AI-based inspection reviews the solder joints, so defects are caught at the source, not at the end of the line.

  4. 04 In development

    Seal

    One automated shot of silicone seals the sensor. A camera-aligned mold closes on the ribbon and a metered dispenser injects, replacing a two-step manual process.

In development

Automated silicone encapsulation

Sealing a sensor onto a textile ribbon is still the last manual step. In our own baseline, two technicians need about two hours and two separate silicone shots per sensor line. We are building the machine module that replaces it.

< 2 minautomated cycle per sensor
≤ 0.2 mmmold-to-sensor placement
20 washeshome-laundering test, ISO 6330-based

Project targets, not yet demonstrated on the machine.

Why Intelectronics

Built for the Complexity
of Smart Textile Manufacturing

End-to-End Partnership

We cover design and production under one roof, so there are no handoff problems between teams.

Automation-First

Our process is built on automation from the start — not manual assembly dressed up with machines.

Textile-Native Engineering

Electronics designed specifically for textile integration, not adapted from rigid-board processes.

Scalable from Day One

The same process runs your prototype run and your production run — no re-engineering at scale.

Real Soldered Joints

Standard conductive ribbon and a genuine solder connection, not an embroidered or laminated workaround.

One Machine, One Supplier

Placement, soldering, AI-based inspection, and soon encapsulation on one line: a finished, tested ribbon from one partner instead of several manual steps.

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We work with companies across medical, industrial, defence, and consumer sectors. All enquiries are treated confidentially.

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