Wearable Device & Technology Expo, Wearable Expo will host its visitors in Japan – Tokyo Big Sight from 16th to 18th January with its 5th edition. The exhibition, which is organized for the innovations brought by smart technologies and digital solutions to the clothing industry, will be the stage for the launch of innovative products.
Wearable Expo will take place in Japan, one of the traditional centers of high technology, and the technologies to guide the coming years will have a coverage in 4 zones. Development Technology Zone was prepared for all kinds of wearable device manufacturers; Electronic parts, high-performance materials, electronic materials, production equipment, processing technologies, batteries, power supply development tools will take place in this zone. Application experts will be interested in the Wearable Application Solution Zone. Main topics are production/work efficiency, health business development, employee health, big data management.
New opportunities in augmented reality and virtual reality
AR/VR (Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality) Zone will host highly engaging solutions. Applications, content, development tools, engine platforms and other AR/VR solutions and services specialized in AR/VR related systems and services will be visible in this zone. The Wearable Device Zone of the fair will be the center where the wearable device companies will exhibit their new products. Smart devices such as smart glasses, smart watches, smart clothing, smart band, head-mounted displays, rings, necklaces and fabric will meet the visitors in this zone.
Wearable Expo, organized by Reed Exhibitions Japan Ltd, has a wide audience. Smart glasses, smart watches, smart clothing, active tracking systems and health equipment manufacturers show great interest in this exhibition. Wearable device manufacturers have a significant weight in the visitor profile. These visitor companies operates in health, maintenance, entertainment, retail, manufacturing, logistics, construction, security, insurance, etc. fields.
Tomorrow’s solutions in fiber category
Participants of the fair in the fiber product category and the products they will offer are as follows; Asahikasei Corporation (the world’s first stretchable electrical wire); Chemi-Home Material Technology (wearable elongated electrically conductive textile materials); Fiber & Tech (conductive fiber providing high electrical conductivity and mechanical stability); Litex Textile & Technology (adding conductive elements to fabric); Teijin Frontier (fusion / melting solution of fiber products and wearable technologies); Toyobo (stretchable conductive films); Volt Wearable Tech (VOLT smart yarns and wearable technologies); C-INK (digital metallic print with high quality gold/silver nano inks); Creative Coating (high liquid phase and vapor phase coating expertise); Saw & SPR-Tech (cheap and highly accurate portable contact angle meter); Comcraft Corporation (Ethernet, DC300W, contactless rotary module for fiber optics); Zeon Corporation (high temperature resistant Cyclo – Olefin polymer)
Wearable Expo Conference will address key issues
The Wearable Expo Conference, which will be held within the scope of the fair, will bring together the academy and industry. The main topics of the event include manufacturing, logistics, control and maintenance. In the first session of the conference, which will be held with the title of ‘Wearable Technology is Changing Society’; Masahiko Tsukamoto from Kobe University will be presenting ‘The Real Value of Wearable Devices and the Way of Commercialization’ while Mitsufuji Corp. CEO Ayumu Mitera will present their presentation ‘Bringing a Revolutionary Smart Clothing to the Wearable Industry’.
163 participants took part in the last year’s edition of the fair, while 14,751 sector professionals and producers from 51 countries and regions visited. A total of 3,061 people attended the conference organized during the fair.