Hatem Zeine, Founder and President, Ossia09.13.21
In the past decade, the sports and fitness industry has fully embraced sensor technology to create wearable devices that inspire activity and improve health and physical performance. These devices are designed to collect data and deliver information to optimize movement and certain behaviors. First appearing as wristbands, clip-ons, and even rings and necklaces, we’re now seeing products with biosensor threads woven into fabrics, like pants and socks, sensors in shoes, and sensors in skin patches.
It doesn’t take much imagination to make the leap from athletic device wearables to orthopedic applications. Sensors in a pair of yoga pants can deliver not only athletic performance metrics, but also data that would be enlightening to someone who is in the business of knee brace innovation, as one example.
One hurdle with innovating in either industry is the challenge of power.
What are our current options? Most device manufacturers are focused on rechargeable battery power. But there’s also energy harvesting, also called power harvesting, that is gaining popularity. There’s some innovation around near-field
It doesn’t take much imagination to make the leap from athletic device wearables to orthopedic applications. Sensors in a pair of yoga pants can deliver not only athletic performance metrics, but also data that would be enlightening to someone who is in the business of knee brace innovation, as one example.
One hurdle with innovating in either industry is the challenge of power.
What are our current options? Most device manufacturers are focused on rechargeable battery power. But there’s also energy harvesting, also called power harvesting, that is gaining popularity. There’s some innovation around near-field
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