CDX General Discussion, page-4

Like to add this again , highly talked about sensors and gold standards in a $100b market. Cardiex mentioned as high class player.

http://www.newelectronics.co.uk/electronics-technology/the-wearable-doctor/211521/

While company’s like Apple are investing heavily in wearables, a growing number of innovative start-ups are also entering the wearable space. “One, notable for its pulse wave analysis (PWA) technology is CardieX, which has been conducting US trials into obtaining cardiovascular blood pressure (BP) data, using a Blumio radar frequency sensor and CardieX PWA technology in a wearable device,” said Keenan. CardieX has significant expertise in the market, with a central arterial pressure waveform analysis product that has seen 4,000 deployed worldwide in major medical institutions. “Experience is a benefit in this market,” suggested Keenan. “Former wearable market casualty Jawbone has resurfaced as Jawbone Health, a medical subscription service that aims to help users catch health problems early. While the company plans to offer subscribers a wearable device, it also intends to partner with device manufacturers (including Apple) to acquire data from a customer’s existing wearable sensors,” explained Keenan. Accurate sensing While early fitness trackers often relied heavily on step counting, the wider availability of accurate sensors is helping to transform the market. In particular, more flexible and usable pressure sensors are having a major impact on devices that offer running coaching, as they open up the possibility of delivering kinetic gait analysis, which factors in measurements of force, such as power, torque, and pressure, giving far more accurate results than visual analysis of gait alone. Companies such as US-based IoT wearable company Boogio has developed pressure-sensitive in-shoe sensors that are thin enough to easily slip under the insole of your favourite trainers. “The sensors have sixty-five thousand layers of pressure sensitivity across toe, heel and arch areas of the foot, theoretically providing highly accurate data on foot strike, position and cadence,” said Keenan. While the market for fitness and health wearables is forecast to grow in the coming years another sub-sector within this space, and one that extends the concept of well-being beyond that of simply better long-term health decisions or better monitoring an ageing population, is the use of personal safety devices.