Sensors

The new wearable, flexible glove biosensor carries out the sampling and electrochemical biosensing steps on different fingers, with the thumb finger used for collecting the nerve-agent residues and an enzyme immobilized on the index finger.

Researchers have succeeded in producing optic fibers for sensors that are ideal for textiles.

This article provides highlights from the recent Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona, attended by IDTechEx CEO Raghu Das.

Sensor Films Inc. (SFI), started around 2013, is a New York-based advanced manufacturing company that seeks to enable the manufacture of flexible hybrid electronics.

Raghu Das, CEO, IDTechEx, gives an overview in the lead up to the event. The exhibition runs alongside the conference tracks and takes place on 10-11 May in Berlin, Germany. It will showcase over 200 exhibiting companies from 61 countries, many demonstrating the technologies in action.

IDTechEx Analyst Dr David Pugh interviewed Brian Lakamp, Founder and CEO of Totem Power ahead of the launch of their smart lighting and charging solutions in the summer of 2017.

Adding RAIN RFID reader capability to your cellphone

San Diego is affectionately known as America's finest city, but the Southern California metropolis will soon become America's smartest city.

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Thursday 9 March 2017 titled RFID Sensors: Technology, Innovation, Markets... Opportunity?

IDTechEx met with Milo Sensors at CES 2017. They have developed a wrist-worn product called PROOF™. It contains sensors to detect the alcohol presence in sweat, and therefore deduce blood alcohol content. They were founded in 2015 and based in Santa Barbara, CA.

Recently, benefiting from the rapid advances in the design of various flexible sensors, flexible wearable electronic devices have gained increasing attention for potential applications in individual medical care, health assessment, sports monitoring, etc.

Panasonic Corporation has announced that it has developed a new technology, electrical control of the near infrared (NIR) light sensitivity of the same pixel in an organic CMOS image sensor.

IDTechEx caught up with Roozbeh Ghaffari and Ben Schlatka, two of the co-founders at mc10, for an update on their business in the development, licensing and sales of stretchable electronic products, including skin patches.

Chirp technology enables point-to-point communication through audible sounds and has found numerous use cases over the last 12 months. David Pugh spoke to Mike Smales, SVP of operations about this innovative communication system.

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and sale of ceramic-based passive electronic components & solutions, communication modules and power supply modules. Murata is committed to the development of advanced electronic materials and leading edge, multi-functional, high-density modules. For more information see http://www.murata.com/ and http://www.IDTechEx.com

The IDTechEx Launchpad initiative is open to early-stage start-ups, universities, newly spun-out companies, research labs and government labs who can demonstrate a working prototype or product that highlights new advances in any of the related event topics of: 3D printing, electric vehicles, energy harvesting, energy storage, graphene, internet of things, printed electronics, sensors, or wearable technology.

In this premium article, analysts Xiaoxi He and Raghu Das describe IDTechEx's latest research in RFID sensors. Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags have been deployed in a number of applications such as apparel tagging, logistics, transport, airport luggage tagging, library items, contactless cards, car clickers, etc. for several decades, culminating in a market size of $12Bn market size in 2017. RFID usually involves tags, interrogators and corresponding software to enable wireless communication between the tags and interrogators. Usually, the only data that is sent is the information stored on the tag such as the unique ID. However, now IDTechEx sees an increasing trend of tags incorporating sensors, providing variable sensor information sent to the interrogators.

Video Interview with TF Massif at the IDTechEx Show! in Santa Clara, USA (November 16-17 2016)

Video Interview with Cellotape at the IDTechEx Show! in Santa Clara, USA (November 16-17 2016)

Most of us have heard the example of wearable tech's adoption failure, where we abandon our gadgets after a few weeks to end up in our underwear drawers. But ironically, maybe this is exactly where wearable technology should be.