Abstract: Smart knitting products improve the wearing comfort of conventional smart textiles, and are more in line with the requirements of wearable electronic devices for comfortable fitting, which have broad development prospects and market potential. This paper expounds the research content and the significance of intelligent knitting products, then analyzes the advantages of knitting products as basic materials for intelligent textiles, and illustrates the feasibility of three forming methods in intelligent knitting products, i.e., warp knitting, weft knitting and flat knitting. And then, combining with the developed intelligent knitting products, the paper analyzes the related structure characteristics, function principle and core technology.Finally, it carries out a classified discussion on passive intelligent knitting products, active intelligent knitting products and advanced intelligent knitting products, indicating that the good development prospect of intelligent knitting products.

Key words: intelligent textiles; knitting technology; application; sensor