A company called BeBop Sensors has won the 2015 Frost and Sullivan North American Technology Innovation Award for its fabric embedded sensor technology.
Sumit Kumar Pal, senior research analyst at Frost and Sullivan, said: “OEMs find it challenging to develop or procure smart fabric sensors that are multi-functional, reliable, and low-priced. Luckily for them, BeBop Sensor’s innovative smart fabric sensor technology meets these requirements.”
Since launching in Q4 2014, BeBop has completed 14 new sensors for OEM solutions in various fields. BeBop Sensors uses a proprietary Monolithic Fabric Sensor Technology that integrates all of the sensors, traces and electronics into a single piece of fabric. This approach affords greater sensitivity, resolution, range of deployment and fantastic robustness with diminutive size. Implemented differently from sensors in other wearables that measure physiology (EKG, EMG), BeBop measures physicality – the technology senses and displays pressure, XY location, bend, motion, rotation, angle, and torsion, making it useful for applications such as sportswear etc.