Best Wearable Solutions for Monitoring

With nearly 40 exhibitors from 15 different countries the WT | Wearable Technologies Show at MEDICA is as international and comprehensive as never before. For the 7th consecutive year now WT | Wearable Technologies will be presenting the latest innovations and developments in the wearables market. Today we would like to introduce you to the most interesting wearable solutions for monitoring.

Qardio was founded to transform the healthcare industry with simpler, smarter and effective solutions for patients, doctors and healthcare providers. Qardio is a award-winning healthcare company that combines a suite of elegant, clinically-validated devices with powerful data analytics, providing healthcare professionals with valuable insights into patient heart health. They provide different products like QardioBase, a wireless smart scale and body analyzer, QardioArm, a validated wireless blood pressure that fits seamlessly into daily life as well as QardioCore and QardioMD.

AiQ Smart Clothing Inc. merges electronics with textiles to create fashionable, functional and comfortable solutions to meet human’s everyday needs. AiQ plays a crucial role within the Smart Clothing supply-chain and offers a complete and vertical integration of functional and fashionable technologies by combining and installing multiple key components Beyond sports & fitness, AiQ has continuously strengthened its manufacturing and integration capabilities to bring wearable technologies into home & health care that offers a comfortable medium for both patients and physicians.

Biovotion AG is a digital health company in the field of sophisticated, medical-grade and wearable health monitoring solutions. Biovotion is introducing its vital sign monitoring platform that allows for 24/7 monitoring at a quality on par with hospital-based systems and with the convenience and ease-of-use of a consumer product. The platform incorporates the latest physiological sensing and communication technology and state-of-the-art cyber security and privacy standards. The platform connects hospital-based and home-based care, allowing for a seamless monitoring of post-intervention and chronically ill patients.

Rooti Labs Limited focuses on creating exciting yet practical new wearable technology. They brought a network of connected objects and cloud services to life by a clear mission: to actively care for consumers – their physical and mental wellbeing, homes and more. W/Me2 has different functions to achieve diverse results for different people. W/Me2 monitors heart rates during sports to let everyone understand their exercising efficiency. Elderly people can use W/Me2 to measure their HRV in the morning and evening. Analysis of the ANS age and self-explanatory diagrams will provide users with their up-to- date health conditions.

CSEM is a research and development center specializing in microtechnology, nanotechnology, microelectronics, system engineering, photovoltaics and communications technologies. he Swiss company develops technology platforms and integrate sand combine technologies into workable systems. CSEM presents this year its novel OBPM – Optical Blood Pressure Monitor technology. The patented OBPM algorithm allows to process optical PPG signals to extract beat-to-beat estimates of blood pressure.

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is one of the leading research and technology companies in Europe. They help to develop new technologies and service concepts in the areas of digital health, wearable technologies and diagnostics – supporting their growth with top-level research and science-based results. VTT’s disposable beauty patch uses microampere current to enhance absorption of skin care products. They also developed an ultra-elastic IoT platform for wearable electronics applications. The wireless FlexNode sensor devices are suited for direct skin placement as well as clothing integration.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits performs contract research and development for industry and public authorities. Fraunhofer IIS researchers develop microelectronic systems and devices along with the required integrated circuits and software. Established in 1985, the Erlangen-based Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in its current configuration ranks first among the Fraunhofer Institutes concerning headcount and revenues. The business field “Medical Technologies” contains various focal areas like Medical Image Processing, Medical Communication and Sensor Systems and Telematics in health care.

MEDISANA is one of the leading healthcare specialists to operate in the home health care market and work continuously to develop, manufacture and market healthcare products for the end user – so that these products can help ever more people to monitor their own state of health independently and conscientiously, to treat themselves without risk and to practice beauty care professionally. MEDISANA International documents our boundless activities in product development and marketing. The German company provides products for mobile health, sport, wellness, therapy and many more.

Lumio Labs is developing a lightweight cell phone case that reads blood pressure and heart rate vitals and provides continuous monitoring, called AccuRate. It is a cell phone case which monitors the heart rate anywhere and anytime and provides quick and easy measurement of blood pressure. The case is designed to be the most convenient and accurate blood pressure monitoring tool on the market to help people stay in tune with their health and track early warning signs and long-term progress of hypertension.

Here you can find some impressions from the previous years and our confirmed co-exhibitors 2016. Next time we would like to introduce you to our MEDICA-exhibitors in the category women and pain treatment.

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