Manufacturing Tecnology — low-cost sensors

The UOC and MIT collaborate on the design of low-cost sensors to automate clothing recycling The system, integrated into the textiles themselves, is capable of identifying the different types of materials and facilitating their reuseThe new technology, based on RFID communication systems, will also be used to monitor basic health indicators in wearers The fashion industry is currently responsible for the generation of 92 million tonnes of waste and 20% of the world's wastewater. In this context, one of the major challenges facing this sector is finding solutions to improve efficiency and sustainability  across the whole of the industrial process....