Global tech company Epson is to start selling a range of IoT and wearable devices leverages its existing technology portfolio.
The company has given few details of planned products, saying only that they will include:
- sensing devices and modules such as global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) and vital sign sensors;
- software libraries that optimise sensors for applications in areas such as sports and healthcare;
- information sharing service on the results of motion analyses based on Epson’s big data.
Epson says these will combine semiconductor and optical technologies that it has nurtured and advanced over many years. It also offers a link to a page on wearables innovation on its website. In 2017 it debuted its Moverio BT-300 smart glasses in Australia.
It will also launch a new business that will use motion-sensing analysis technology developed for Epson’s M-Tracer golf swing analysis system to “provide valuable data about the actions and movements of people and objects in everyday life.”
It says the move is designed to capitalise on market demands created by Covid-19, an aging population and rising expectations for safter and more security communities fuelled by the increasing deployment of IoT technologies.
The company says it has long used its sensing technologies to provide value to users, citing its semiconductor and optical technologies used in healthcare to monitor an individual’s vital signs and provide visual data about the person’s daily activity and position-fix information measurements used in the running market to support runners by measuring distance and exercise intensity.
“Epson has a large number of sensing devices that apply Epson-original core sensing technologies,” the company says.
“For many years, the company has used sensors to analyse big data and has accumulated a vast amount of data and many algorithms. Epson will broaden the world of smart sensing and accelerate the creation of new applications by building partnerships with collaborating companies and engaging in open innovation projects that focus on Epson’s sensing device product families and on algorithm platforms that create new value obtained through the analysis of sensing data.”
