EMERGE 2016: Wearable Technology Start Ups
Earlier this week, the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate announced ten startup organisations to participate in EMERGE 2016: Wearable Technology, which will connect strategic partners through a common aim for development and research. The link to the program can be found here.
The program is centred around wearable tech used especially by first responders; they require devices such as advance sensors, integrated voice, embedded data communications, and body-worn electronics, and wearables can integrate multiple technologies. The program will also allow the startups access to feed back from first responders, industry partners, and educational resources for business development from mentors.
Dr. Reginald Brothers, the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, is quoted to have said that the startup selection is essential for innovating, and that entrepreneurs are major players in inventing solutions for integrating tech into existing equipment.
Listed below are the ten selected startups, the first two of which are AREA members. The AREA would like to wish them all the best in the program:
- Augmate
- Six15 Technologies
- CommandWear Systems
- HAAS Alert
- Human Systems Integration
- Lumenus
- LuminAID
- Pear Sports
- Vault RMS
- Visual Semantics