Smart Textile Alliance

The Smart Textile Alliance is a specialist ecosystem for smart textile innovation. Founded with the explicit goal of harmonizing technology standards and increasing the maturity of the smart textiles supply chain, to accelerate time to market and reduce development costs for innovative products. We facilitate access to expert state-of-the-art knowledge, proven components and technologies and provide opportunities to network with other members of the ecosystem. We promote smart textiles, showcasing facilities, capabilities and services of ecosystem members and offer opportunities to join relevant proposals with capable industrial and academic partners. In the longer term, STA aims to develop voluntary, consensus-based standards for components and systems, and to provide a programme to validate and certify their quality and interoperability. Smart Textile Alliance is a not-for-profit corporation founded in October 2020. We are registered in England and work out of London, UK and Aarhus, Denmark Relying on engagement from the community it serves, STA is not driven by profit motives. As an independent body, our aim is to bring together industry partners, drive standard development, and promote solutions that are interoperable. We are not a conventional standardization body, we are an association dedicated to converting established components into open standards consensually agreed by companies in the supply chain. We promote plug and play solutions that contribute to making electronics soft and textiles smart. The Smart Textile Alliance is not only for tech companies, it is also a platform for fabric and garment manufacturers to find new partnerships.