Screen­tec Oy joined forces with Pro­tex Balti AS & Movesense Oy in tex­tile inte­grat­ed remote health mon­i­tor­ing

New advance­ments in tech­nol­o­gy are trans­form­ing health­care. They enable the col­lec­tion, analy­sis, and trans­mis­sion of vital patient health data like ECG, heart rate, heart rate vari­abil­i­ty, and move­ment. These inno­va­tions allow remote health mon­i­tor­ing, improv­ing care and con­ve­nience for patients and health­care pro­fes­sion­als.

By com­bin­ing their exper­tise, Screen­tec Oy, Movesense Oy, and Pro­tex Balti AS can now offer health­care oper­a­tors, med­ical device man­u­fac­tur­ers, and remote patient mon­i­tor­ing providers with a com­plete pack­age for wear­able elec­tron­ic con­cept design, devel­op­ment, and man­u­fac­tur­ing. For cus­tomers, this part­ner­ship stream­lines the process of expand­ing into wear­able elec­tron­ics, pro­vid­ing a high­ly effi­cient way to explore new prod­uct lines and enter untapped mar­kets, leav­ing the design and man­u­fac­tur­ing into the capa­ble hands of these col­lab­o­ra­tors.

‘At the end of 2023, I pro­posed to our CEO Antti Tau­ri­ainen that we should con­cen­trate on tex­tile inte­gra­tion of print­ed elec­tron­ics to expand our capa­bil­i­ties and offer­ing. By the end of spring 2024, I had met with Hele­na Almqvist, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor at Pro­tex Balti AS, and it was imme­di­ate­ly clear that their exper­tise in smart tex­tiles com­ple­ment­ed ours. Lat­er, we brought in Movesense, whose cut­ting-edge wear­able sen­sors were the final piece we need­ed to com­plete this col­lab­o­ra­tion,’ said Mikko Paakkolan­vaara, CTO at Screen­tec Oy.

‘Togeth­er, we worked with deter­mi­na­tion to cre­ate the first demon­stra­tor – a tex­tile-inte­grat­ed ECG sen­sor embed­ded in a vest – designed to show­case the com­bined strengths of the three com­pa­nies. “While the demon­stra­tor is not yet test­ed for wash­ing, it rep­re­sents what can be achieved through this kind of part­ner­ship. We were proud to present it at MED­ICA last week.’ he added.

This part­ner­ship com­bines Screentec’s exper­tise in print­ed elec­tron­ics devel­op­ment and man­u­fac­tur­ing, Movesense’ s advanced sen­sor tech­nol­o­gy, and Pro­tex Balti’s mas­tery in smart tex­tiles and tex­tile man­u­fac­tur­ing. While still in its ear­ly stages, this col­lab­o­ra­tion high­lights prac­ti­cal advance­ments in remote health mon­i­tor­ing and wear­able med­ical devices.

In the pic­ture (from left to right): Lin­da Män­nik (Pro­tex Balti), Hele­na Elis­a­bet Almqvist (Pro­tex Balti), Lau­ra Kallo (Screen­tec Oy) ja Tuu­lia Sota­maa (Movesense Oy)

Source: Screen­tec Oy, Movesense Oy, Pro­tex Balti AS