Vision and Challenges for Realising the Internet of Things

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eapfrog is a joint research and
innovation initiative of the
European textile and clothing
industry, led by Euratex, aiming
at a technology breakthrough in the
clothing industry. It brings together a
critical mass of European textile and
clothing companies and research centres
which will attempt to develop and
implement new ways of optimal fabric
preparation for clothing production,
automated garment manufacture, virtual
garment prototyping, supply chain
integration and mass customisation.
The ultimate goal of LEAPFROG is to
achieve a step change in productivity
and competitiveness of Europe's clothing
sector and to decrease its dependence
on the labour cost factor.
LEAPFROG
Leadership for European Apparel Production
From Research along Original Guidelines
The LEAPFROG Project
The LEAPFROG Integrated Project attempts
to modernise and ultimately transform the
clothing sector into a demand-driven, knowledge-based,
high-tech industry by exploitation
of recent advances in a broad area of
scientific-technological fields ranging from
nanotechnology and polymeric material
science,
robotics and innovative joining techniques,
3D computer graphics and animation, to
e-business and management research.
If LEAPFROG research and development
work reaches its objectives there will be
enormous innovation and new business potential
across the entire spectrum of textile,
clothing, machinery and service companies in
Europe.
CERP-IoT – Cluster of European Research Projects on the Internet of Things
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