Sensors

Xenoma develops the next-generation smart apparel 'e-skin' to provide well-being and happiness in your daily life. As it can be worn comfortably, the e-skin is one of the most ideal interfaces to monitor the user's activity and vital information unobtrusively. Founded in November 2015 as a spin-out from the University of Tokyo and collaborating with Japanese apparel manufacturing and trading companies, Xenoma works across many industries and sectors to achieve "Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Through Entertainment".

Flexen had a booth on the Taiwanese pavilion in CES 2020's Eureka Park. They demonstrated their C-Ring product, a wearable wrist band / skin patch product including optical sensors.

IDTechEx spoke to David Tao, co-founder and CEO of Shanghai BHS Bio-Tech Company, Ltd. They have developed some chemical sensing systems for sweat, which they demonstrated in a bracelet product at their booth at CES 2020.

Yutech (Your Health Technology Co., Ltd.) are a Taiwanese company that have developed healthcare products including a single lead ECG skin patch and a digital stethoscope. IDTechEx interviewed their Director Shuenn-Yuh (Louis) Lee.

Arab Health 2020 was held at the World Trade Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from the 27th to 30th of January 2020. The event welcomed 4,000+ exhibitors and 50,000+ attendees from all over the world. It consisted of an expo and a range of conference tracks on various healthcare topics.

IDTechEx interviewed PAOTscan at their booth on the large French startup section at CES 2020's Eureka Park. They have developed a skin patch product, claiming to monitor the antioxidants in the skin and used to recommend products such as cosmetics or nutritional supplements.

IDTechEx caught up with Davide Vigano, CEO of Sensoria at CES 2020. We discussed their latest work on a European Horizon 2020 project working with Rejoint on a smart knee brace, as well as updates from their other work, including progress in their diabetic footwear projects with Optima Molliter.

SenQ is a subsidiary of Asia Air Surveys. They have developed a technology for athlete tracking for team sports based on location tracking technology from their parent company. IDTechEx spoke to Takayuki Yamada at their booth in Eureka Park at CES 2020.

Brilliant Sole have developed smart insole products for applications including VR tracking, sports performance and medical monitoring. IDTechEx interviewed them at CES 2020.

Unwanted static accumulation leads to hazards such as lightning, ignition, dust explosions, dielectric breakdown, electronic damage, and unpleasant shock on touching things. Deliberate creation of static charge leading to spark discharge was long ago achieved by the Wimshurst machine and Van der Graaf generator and party tricks such as rubbing a balloon on your clothing to make it adhere. None of these were useful beyond research and entertainment.

Ambarella is a CA based company. In the autonomous mobility and ADAS sector, they are offering a short-range surround stereo vision system to detect objects in 3D space. The idea is that the system can compete and outperform radar and sonar.

Phasya: software to make judgements about physiological and cognitive state of drivers. Phasya is a firm specialized in offering a software portfolio aimed at monitoring several physiological and cognitive states.

IDTechEx interviewed Roberto Munoz from Analog Devices at their booth at CES 2020. They have developed chipsets and devices aimed at doing vital sign monitoring for digital health.

ViGEM: logging and transfer pixel-level raw data in test drives. ViGEM argues that recording of pixel-level raw data will be essential.

b-plus: managing terabytes of data collected during test drive shifts. b-plus: the suite of perception sensors in a vehicle generates large amounts of data.

Annotell: software platform to support image annotation and labelling. The core of many deep learning approaches is annotated data.

The current outbreak of a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has hit China in the past month and spread to 25 nations. Early detection and diagnosis are essential to reduce the prevalence of infectious diseases and to prevent them from becoming epidemic or even pandemic.

Eyeris: In-vehicle Scene Understanding AI for Autonomous and Highly Automated Vehicles.

Agaonva offer leak detection services for distribution pipes and larger network pipes for both potable and wastewater. IDTechEx interviewed Ana Cozar, a Business Development Manager from Aganova.

ESPROS Photonics presented their time-of-flight (ToF) lidar measurement mechanism (905nm laser). ESPROS is a fully developed IC design and production company headquartered in Swiss with additional design centre in China.