Sensors

Early-stage London-based company using AI to perform marker-less motion capture with as little as two iPhones or other cameras. Its tracking can compare favorably to optical tracking using multimillion dollar setups. IDTechEx met representatives from the company at Laval Virtual 2023.

This premium article provides event summary coverage of software and extended reality (XR) applications from Europe's premier XR event, Laval Virtual.

This premium article provides event summary coverage of hardware developments from Europe's premier XR event, Laval Virtual 2023, including headsets, haptics and motion tracking.

This article covers the value chain, key suppliers and activity by region for In Mold Electronics.

Innovation roadmap for the report 'Conductive Ink Market 2023-2033'.

Long-wave infrared (LWIR) has historically been too expensive for widespread integration into vehicles. However, as a truly passive sensing technology, it offers widespread benefits in the pursuit of safer, more automated cars. Owl's objective is to show that LWIR sensing is an affordable and necessary technology for automakers which can significantly improve their nighttime sensing capabilities.

Thursday 27 April 2023 - What is the status and outlook for the wearables industry as a whole? How do the opportunities and challenges vary between wearable sensors and actuators? How is the role of wearables in healthcare evolving? Why wearables for drug-free health management and which technologies have the most commercial potential?

6G is the next generation of wireless technology that promises to go beyond mobile communication and revolutionize how people interact with the world around them. According to IDTechEx's latest 6G research, 6G could be with us in 2028 at the earliest.

MinkTec is an early stage German company that has developed a wearable strain sensor for monitoring spine movement. IDTechEx caught up with Finance, Marketing, and Sales Director Benjamin Holmer at LOPEC 2023.

Menlo Systems Inc is an optical component company, with the mission: 'Transfer of innovative optical technologies into user-friendly products'. Tess Skyrme, Technology Analyst at IDTechEx, interviewed their Business Development Manager Gabrielle Thomas about the company's role in the quantum sensing eco-system.

TriEye is an Israeli company specialising in short-wave infrared (SWIR) image sensor and laser technology. It has developed an approach to manufacturing low-cost image sensors on silicon that are capable of detecting wavelengths in the SWIR region of the electromagnetic spectrum as well as the standard visible region. The company integrates its SWIR sensors and laser scanners into its product.

StretchSense produce hand motion-capture technology enabled by electroactive polymers (EAPs).

KEMET produces flexible haptic actuators for a range of applications including AR/VR. IDTechEx spoke with Valerio Zerillo, Product & Business Development Manager.

Asked whether electronics is a 'digital technology', almost everyone would reply in the affirmative. However, while printed circuit boards (PCBs) enable digital technologies, the manufacturing processes used to produce them are still largely analog.

Ember Technologies develops temperature-controlling products using sensor technology and is well-known for its smart mugs.

Wearable technology is threatening to disrupt aspects of the pharmaceutical industry, with the latest technology offering a drug-free alternative to health management. But which of these competing wearable technologies are the promising candidates to lead the healthcare revolution?

CIONIC (Cionic, Inc.) are developing a wearable sleeve: 'The first bionic clothing for mobility impairment'. Tess Skyrme, Technology Analyst at IDTechEx, interviewed the CEO Jeremiah Robinson (alongside his PR manager Tim Smith).

Radar Informatics is an early-stage company looking to commercialize research from Durham University into a technology platform to quantify concussion in professional sports people — particularly footballers (soccer).

Zedsen is a London-based company developing non-invasive sensor technology for applications in healthcare.