ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the economic and social progress of the textile and clothing sector by identifying areas of research in smart textiles that can have a direct and positive impact on the health and living conditions of the society. It provides a plan to bring smart textiles to the forefront of value-added textile products. In order to identify the current research and product landscape of smart textiles, the chapter includes the state-of-the-art of smart textiles. It presents scenarios that describes everyday situations in the years 2020 and 2030 contributed to envisaging our future lives with smart textiles. The chapter explains main activities of the textile industry and converging different disciplines to develop smart textiles. The three main activities in this industry are clothing, home and interior textiles and technical textiles. The chapter provides an insight into the common roadmap methodology applied by various individual companies and whole research and business sectors.
