Company Targets Wearables Market With Smart Fabric Sensor Technology
BeBop Sensors, a wearable sensor technology company, announced a smart fabric sensor that measures bend, location, motion, rotation, angle and torque. The fabric sensors provide continuous real-time data for force, x/y location, bend, twist, size, stretch and motion that’s applicable…
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for markets including clothing and protective wear, shoes, healthcare devices, athletic equipment, automotive, robotics, gaming, biometrics and appliances, the company said Monday. The sensors were initially created for musical keyboards by Keith McMillen Instruments, which spun off BeBop Sensors as a separate business to target the wearables market. The technology could be employed in a variety of use cases including car steering wheels to sense driver awareness; to measure gait and flexure of toes and feet in socks or shoes; and in grip sensors to measure finger positions on a bat handle or golf club, the company said.