1D-NEON aims at increasing European competitiveness in the field of smart fibre-based innovative technical textiles for several applications exploiting embedded electronics, photonics, energy and sensors functions to answer emerging market demands, which are predicted by analysts to be worth $3Bn by end of this decade (Source: IDTechEx Report “E-Textiles: Electronic Textiles 2014-2024”).

There are several application sectors where 1D-NEON is likely to have significant impact:

1. The display market, with entirely new and high value products based on fibre-based wall displays that are capable of entirely new form factors than current state of the art large-area display technologies.2. The indoor lighting market, with large-area lighting textiles in smart curtains and other indoor high tech/high value application products, towards new design appeal.

2. The indoor lighting market, with large-area lighting textiles in smart curtains and other indoor high tech/high value application products, towards new design appeal.

3. The energy harvesting and storage market, with smart fabrics that capture energy from the environment and store into the fibres, in a distributed manner.

4. The distributed sensors market, with new products able to transduce physical properties and convert them in electrical signals that can be processed locally by fibre-based components.