Wearable Technology

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).

Electronic skin patches have made remarkable progress in the field of healthcare. These wearable electronic devices feature adhesive pads designed to be worn directly on the skin, enabling convenient and non-invasive monitoring of vital signs and biomarkers.

This premium article discusses electrical stimulation with skin patches, including NMES, EMS, and FES, their applications, and key players in the field.

Dexcom is a US-based biotech company, founded in 1999. The company is one of the market leaders in the continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) industry.

A shirt that can track a person's heart rate, a shoe that can measure gait - the integration of electronic components with textiles to form e-textiles has been a significant research interest for several years.

Abbott Diabetes Care is a division of American multinational company Abbott Laboratories. Today, Abbott Diabetes Care is a major player in the continuous glucose monitoring market — the company's "Freestyle" brand of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) is believed to be the most widely used CGM device.

Forecasts from the IDTechEx Research report "Wearable Technology Forecasts 2023-2033"

i-Sens is a Korean medical device company, founded in 2000 with headquarters in Seoul and subsidiaries across the world. The company is a major player in the Asian market for diabetes management devices.

This IDTechEx premium article discusses the development and potential applications of electronic skin patches for sweat sensing and wound management. Electronic skin patches are thin, flexible devices that adhere to the skin and contain sensors to detect and measure various biomarkers. The article discusses galvanic skin response, the various analytes present in sweat, and the players involved in sweat sensing. In wound monitoring, electronic skin patches have the potential to be smart bandages, a potential solution to problems with wound dressing such as the development of infections. The article discusses the players and technologies in electronic skin patches for wound monitoring.

Forecasts taken from IDTechEx report "E-Textiles and Smart Clothing Markets 2023-2033: Technologies, Players, and Applications"

Glooko is a prominent player in remote patient monitoring for diabetes care, with the company citing deployment across more than 8000 clinical locations over 30 countries.

Tess Skyrme, Technology Analyst at IDTechEx, caught up with Remedee Labs' CEO Jacques Husser about their wearable technology for pain relief.

Diabeloop is a French medtech company, founded in 2015 with headquarters in Grenoble. The company provides the DBLG1 system, an algorithm to manage hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery for people with diabetes (PWD).

Wearable Devices Ltd. was founded in 2014. The company is developing 'Mudra', a brain-computer interfacing wristband. Tess Skyrme, Technology Analyst at IDTechEx, interviewed the company following their product demo at CES2023. Tess interviewed the Executive Vice President of Business Development, Offir Remez.

2022 was a turbulent year for Extended Reality (XR). The popularization of the metaverse concept raised massive interest in Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) devices as the gateway to this future vision of the internet, with excitement gathering over an expected revolution in how we communicate.

Sony announced the replacement for its aging but very successful PlayStation VR (PSVR) at CES 2022; CES 2023 saw the chance to demo the VR2, which is only compatible with the relatively hard-to-find PlayStation 5 (PS5).

Lumus is an Israeli company which designs optical engines for AR and other head mounted display (HMD) devices. These optical engines are composed of a display and reflective (also known as geometric) waveguide combiner — Lumus' key expertise is in the design of these waveguides, which can expand the exit pupil in two dimensions. Although largely fabless, it has its own smaller production line for R&D and specialized orders.

This premium article reviews the specific technology opportunities and market outlook for wrist-worn wearable technology.