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A Slovak company developing smart sport socks with vital signs measurement for athletes is looking for an investor/research institute/technical university or medical institution to improve the technology

Summary

Profile Type
  • Business request
POD Reference
BRSK20231012004
Term of Validity
31 October 2023 - 30 October 2025
Company's Country
  • Slovakia
Type of partnership
  • Investment agreement
Targeted Countries
  • All countries
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General information

Short Summary
The Slovak sportswear company has been on the market since 2021. Their functional compression socks with anti-slip ABS technology ensure that the combination of feet, socks and shoes is more stable and secure than ever before, providing athletes with better grip and stability to perform at their best.
The company is looking for an investor/research institute/technical university or medical institution to improve the technology.
Full Description
The Slovak sportswear company has been on the market since 2021. The emerging sportswear brand, is dedicated to producing performance socks that prioritize foot and ankle injury prevention and athlete performance enhancement. The company is entering an underserved market with its groundbreaking, featuring embedded sensors in the ABS silicone. These socks offer a multitude of benefits, including monitoring various performance and health parameters like pressure, humidity, temperature, and strain, as well as GPS parameters such as time, distance, speed, acceleration, energy consumption, sprints, and training load. This versatility makes them valuable for athletic and health monitoring purposes, even for orthopedic conditions.
The smart socks will serve as a comprehensive tool for measuring and monitoring lower-limb load, on-field imbalance, gait analysis, and fatigue assessment in various sports activities like football, fitness, and running among others. In team sports, they will facilitate performance tracking, data comparison with teammates, and scientific return-to-play assessments. These smart socks excel in capturing precise biomechanical data, ensuring comfort, offering customizable sports-specific metrics, enabling multi-parameter monitoring, and proving adaptable across various sports. They maintain the aesthetic appeal and traditional attire of sports while discreetly enhancing performance and health monitoring. By deploying Machine learning (ML) in our system, we will be able to generate text evaluation reports about the athlete's current health and performance status, create prediction models of performance growth, and perceive the athlete also in terms of predisposition to a certain type of sports activity. In this way, the athlete will be able to optimize and individualize his training program.
The company is looking for an investor/research institute/technical university or medical institution to improve the technology.
Advantages and Innovations
- The socks offer a multitude of benefits, including monitoring various performance and health parameters like pressure, humidity, temperature, and strain, as well as GPS parameters such as time, distance, speed, acceleration, energy consumption, sprints, and training load.
- A comprehensive tool for measuring and monitoring lower-limb load, on-field imbalance, gait analysis, and fatigue assessment in various sports activities
- Smart socks excel in capturing precise biomechanical data, ensuring comfort, offering customizable sports-specific metrics, enabling multi-parameter monitoring, and proving adaptable across various sports.
- By deploying Machine learning (ML) in system, they will be able to generate text evaluation reports about the athlete's current health and performance status, create prediction models of performance growth, and perceive the athlete also in terms of predisposition to a certain type of sports activity.
Technical Specification or Expertise Sought
The company has made socks with silicone, but they are still developing technology that will measure those features.
Stage of Development
  • Already on the market
Sustainable Development Goals
  • Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Partner Sought

Expected Role of a Partner
The company is looking for:
- an investor
- research institute/technical university or medical institution to improve the technology.
The preferred type of cooperation is an investment agreement.
Type and Size of Partner
  • R&D Institution
  • Big company
Type of partnership
  • Investment agreement

Dissemination

Technology keywords
  • 11007 - Sports and Leisure
Market keywords
  • 05007004 - Monitoring equipment
  • 05007007 - Other medical/health related (not elsewhere classified)
Targeted countries
  • All countries