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IDTechEx interviewed David Kizer, VP Operations at Owlet. IDTechEx caught up with them about the progress of their suite of products for infant monitoring, including several wearable and e-textile products.

IDTechEx interviewed Vikram Mehta and Sebastien Gaddini at their booth at CES 2020. They were demonstrating their smart diaper product, including aspects of chemical sensing for urine and stool analysis.

Organic Robotics Corporation are commercialising a technology for motion capture in apparel based on stretchable optical fibres included in the clothing. IDTechEx interviewed their CEO, Ilayda Samilgil, at their booth in CES 2020's Eureka Park.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) must be better managed for patient care to improve. The protocols for monitoring patients are rapidly evolving. Historically, patients who fall ill are required to travel in order to visit a general practitioner or hospital. This procedure may soon become a thing of the past.

IDTechEx attended AutoSens 2019, the event took place at the car museum in Brussels. This event is focused on all future vehicle perception technologies, including lidar, radar, and camera. In this article, we summarized key learnings around lidar technologies.

Masimo is a global medical technology company that develops and manufactures innovative noninvasive patient monitoring technologies, including medical devices and a wide array of sensors.

Suunto is a Finnish manufacturer of world-renowned sports watches, dive computers and precision instruments for the toughest conditions. Its new initiative, Movesense, is an open development environment for motion tracking and other sensor solutions and applications for and beyond sports. It makes the company's expertise available to all partners.

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao spoke with Katie Johnson from Neofect's public relations agency, Gregory FCA. Neofect is a company developing devices for rehabilitation. The company has been in this space for the past 10 years. IDTechEx spoke with Neofect at CES 2018 and CES 2019.

At CES 2020 IDTechEx interviewed SENSE, a 50 person company that provides long range solid state LIDAR. The company fabricates its own lasers (most others, they claim, buy in parts).

At CES 2020 IDTechEx met with Tania Sole from Airspeq. The company has developed a MEMS based sensor to detect airborne particulate matter. The technology is based on patent pending MEMS thin-film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) technology.

At CES 2020 IDTechEx interviewed Dr Moon Kyoung-sik, CEO of NodeTalks. NodeTalks has developed an "intelligent wearable gas detector" based on creating a low power system-on-chip and ultra low power sensor interface IC.

IDTechEx met with Fraunhofer IOF at CES 2020 and saw a demonstration of their video based health monitoring system.

IDTechEx met with Vayyar at CES 2020. Vayyar has developed a '4D' radar system that tracks location of objects in three dimensions plus their movement.

At CES 2020 IDTechEx met up with Surestar Lidar for an update on their LIDAR sensors. IDTechEx analysts learnt of the latest prices from SureStar LIDAR.

At CES 2020 LIVOX announced a price reduction of their LIDAR units, with units starting at $599.

Healthcare Sensor Innovations USA 2020: Dr Nadia Tsao covers what to expect at our next event in San Jose, March 17 & 18. Register: www.HealthcareSensorInnovations.com/USA

IDTechEx analysts visited Aixtron in the UK. Aixtron are a ca 300mEUR revenue company that specialise in CVD equipment for multiple sectors. Their core technology is atmospheric pressure MOCVD using a close coupled showerhead process.

IEE is a 500 million Euro public company that make sensors and other systems for the automotive industry. They also serve other sectors including wearables, sensors and controls for buildings and input devices.

At CES 2020 IDTechEx met with Arnar Thors, CEO of Aerbetic, who were on the Aernos stand (Aernos provide miniaturized gas sensors sensitive to parts per billion).

At CES 2020 Royole Corporation showcased a variety of their flexible OLED displays.